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Etienne de Villers-Sédanier

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7 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

Cognitive abilities start changing when we're about 40, 45.

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

And it's the same for acetylcholine.

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

For every decade after the age of 40, 45, you get around 2.5% decline in this neurotransmitter in key brain areas.

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

The other group was also doing a type of training, well, training, like video games, if you will, like Solitaire and Candy Crush, which can be addictive.

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

And a lot of people play this over and over again, but it doesn't engage the brain in the same way.

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

It was about 2.3%, which is not huge, but it's significant considering that you get a 2.5% decrease.

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Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

per decade just with aging.