NBC Nightly News (7/24, story 6, 2:00, Holt) reported in a two-minute segment, “There’s been a debate about whether brain exercises can help ward off” Alzheimer’s disease. On Sunday, “scientists reported for the first time they do work.”
The Los Angeles Times (7/24, Healy) reported in “Science Now” that “older adults who did exercises to shore up the speed at which they processed visual information could cut by nearly half their likelihood of cognitive decline or dementia over a 10-year period.” The findings, which were presented July 24 at the Alzheimer’s Association’s International Conference and involved some 2,802 “cognitively healthy” seniors, “establish specialized brain training as a potentially powerful strategy to prevent Alzheimer’s disease and other afflictions, including normal aging, that sap memory and reduce function.”
Related Links:
— “Brain training may forestall dementia onset for years, new study says,” Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2016.