A three-year study of nearly 4,000 adults ranging from age 19 to 94 found that brain health can improve at any age, challenging the common belief that mental sharpness must decline as we get older. Participants spent just a few minutes a day on brain-training activities, and researchers found measurable gains across multiple aspects of brain health, including thinking clarity, emotional well-being, and sense of purpose.
  • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.todayEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    I thought it was reported a whole back that the benefits of those “brain training” apps were vastly over-hyped. Gonna have to go back & look for those reports.

    • javasux@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      2 days ago

      I believe the finding was that learning new skills was the beneficial part, and it didn’t help to keep doing them once you were proficient

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      Learning is good for the brain at any age. Picking up a new skill, traveling to a foreign land, starting a new job with new people…

      Fiddling with an app on your phone…. Not so much.