Etienne de Villers-Sédanier
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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.