Reading, writing and playing games may help aging brains stay healthy
November 27, 2012
Mental activities like reading and writing can preserve structural integrity in the brains of older people, according to a new study.
Konstantinos Arfanakis, Ph.D., and colleagues from Rush University Medical Center and Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago studied what effect late-life cognitive activity might have on the brain’s white matter, which is composed of nerve fibers, or axons, that transmit information throughout the brain.
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