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Study links weight training to slower brain aging in older adults

A large brain imaging trial suggests that regular weight training may slow how quickly the brain appears to age in older ...

You can’t really “train” your brain. Here’s what you can do instead.

So don’t get stuck in your ways as you age. Castel writes in his book that even changing up your old habits — hiking a ...

Simple Brain Training Cuts Dementia Risk Decades Later, Study Finds

Speed-of-processing cognitive training in older adults significantly reduced dementia risk over 20 years, outperforming memory and reasoning training. Its adaptive, implicit learning approach may ...
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Brain Game May Reduce Risk of Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias

A certain type of brain training appears to prevent or delay dementia by some 25% in people older than age 65, according to new research.Surprisingly, it wasn’t memory or problem-solving tasks that ...

7 ways meditation scientifically rewires the brain

A major Nature review similarly describes meditation as a form of mental training tied to attention control, emotion ...
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Simple brain training exercise cuts dementia risk for 20 years, study finds

Adults aged 65 and older who completed five to six weeks of cognitive speed training, known as speed of processing training, ...