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Learning mentally demanding skills may help keep an ageing mind sharp
Zee News: A new research has shown that learning only certain activities, such as photography, may help elderly improve their cognitive functioning. These findings reveal that less demanding activities, such as listening to classical
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“I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled”
What do those words evoke for you? For me, because I still have fragments of T.S. Eliot’s poetry bouncing around my neurons, those lyrical words trigger the idea of growing old, with all its associated
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Learning new skill beats puzzles for boosting seniors’ memory
CBS News: Want to work out your brain? A new study suggests you should put away that crossword puzzle, because learning new skills may be a more effective way to keep your mind sharp. A
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Tip-of-the-tongue moments not tied to memory decline
Chicago Tribune: Did you ever want to say something, but the word or name gets “stuck on the tip of your tongue?” Don’t worry. Those lapses may not be a sign of dementia – just
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Want To Feel 5 Years Older? Just Take A Memory Test
NPR: Researchers in a memory lab at Texas A&M University noticed that all the older people coming in as volunteers were really worried about how they’d do. So the scientists decided to measure how taking
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Learning New Skills Keeps an Aging Mind Sharp
Older adults are encouraged to stay active to keep their minds sharp. But new findings from a longitudinal study suggests that only demanding activities — such as learning photography — will benefit cognitive functioning.