A New York Times interview with Barbara Strauch, the author of a new book “The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind,” provides glimpses into the aging brain.
Is there anything you can do to keep your brain healthy and improve the deficits, like memory problems?
...Exercise is the best studied thing you can do to your brain. It increases brain volume, produces new baby brain cells in grownup brains....
Do social connections and relationships make a difference in how the brain ages?
There is a whole bunch of science about being social and how cognitive function seems to be better if you are social. There is a fascinating study in Miami where they studied people who lived in apartments. Those who had balconies where they could see their neighbors actually aged better cognitively than others....
Read full article: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/the-talents-of-a-middle-aged-brain/?src=me&ref=homepage
Luckily, I haven't encountered any signs of an aging brain.
I wanted to add something to the above, but, I forgot what I was going to write about. In the meantime, you can test your awareness by clicking on the video below.
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