Study: Mental Stimulation Can Help Fight Dementia
Reported in: Voice of America -
If you like to play chess, bridge or a musical instrument, do not let old age stop you. A new study, conducted over two decades, concludes that regular exercise - the kind that challenges the mind - appears to ward off dementia.
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=163ECB0F-7B7A-4FBF-9A8945FEE8614ACF
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It’s a nice thought. I guess I believe it, since there are studies (87% of people will believe something that has statistics to back it up ). But the chess-playing folks, and the musicians, and the like, that I know, seem no less demented than the other people I know (present company excepted).
Well you know Tony, they say the memory is the second thing to go with age. I forget what the first one was…
Steven
I (literally) cut the article out of the paper yesterday to read when I had more time…and now I can’t find it. I know it’s here somewhere. True story, no kidding.
Too late for me! I’m demented already.
I keep trying, though.
Hmmm… I really, really hope this is true, but my grandfather was a Harvard educated physicist who designed and developed microprocessors for Boeing, NASA, and IBM , spent his days reading about blackholes, the phyics of the space-time continuum and listening to classical music and jazz. He developed alzheimers, which he fought for 4 years until he died.
Still, it’s definately worth a shot!
Best,
Chris