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Challenging your brain helps keep it healthy. Here's how to do it

A study links lifelong learning — reading, learning another language, playing chess — to slower cognitive decline, even postponing Alzheimer's a few years.
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A few weeks of brain training can slash dementia risk by 25% -- but only 1 type of training actually works

A groundbreaking 20-year study shows that just five weeks of a specific type of brain training can reduce dementia risk by 25%. Here's why this particular mental exercise succeeds where crossword ...

Cognitive Training May Cut Dementia Risk for Decades

Research following older adults over many years has found that activities that improve brain processing speed can have ...
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As a Neurologist, This Is What I Wish Everyone Knew About Exercise And The Brain

Op-Ed: What I tell my patients—and what I try to practice myself—is this: you don’t need perfection. You just need to move.
Rolling Out

5 exercises neurologists recommend for optimal brain health

The connection between physical movement and brain function has emerged as one of neuroscience’s most significant discoveries. The human brain, despite representing only 2% of body weight, consumes ...

This Overlooked Brain Region May Hold the Key to Strength in Aging

Scientists have identified a hidden brain signal tied to strength and aging, offering a new, early clue to frailty that could reshape how we understand physical decline. Credit: Stock A new study ...
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This Type of Brain Training May Actually Cut Your Alzheimer’s Risk

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer  Could games designed to strengthen mental skills help prevent Alzheimer’s disease as you age? According to a new 20-year study, they may.1 More than 7 million Americans ...

This Amount of Exercise Can Improve Mental Performance Almost Immediately

Here's exactly what to do.

Want to Reduce Your Dementia Risk? Try This Brain Training Game

A new study from Johns Hopkins found that one type of brain-training computer game may help reduce the risk of dementia by up to 25 percent. What’s more, that protective effect appeared to last for ...
Morningstar

These brain exercises could cut your dementia risk by 20% over 20 years

We're winning the fight against dementia, one battle at a time Bruce Willis has it. So did the singer Tony Bennett, the actor Gene Wilder, the boxer Sugar Ray Robinson and the author E.B. White. So ...
WGHP

6 brain training exercises for kids, teens

(WGHP) — Tuesday is World Brain Day. We talk a lot about the need for children to be physically fit, but it’s also important to be mentally fit. In Mommy Matters, we’re looking at ways to develop a ...
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How exercise shapes a healthier brain

It’s no secret exercise is good for your body—but what about your brain? Linda Overstreet-Wadiche, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Neurobiology and vice chair for Faculty Affairs and Development ...