Educating the Brain to Avoid Dementia: Can Mental Exercise Prevent Alzheimer Disease?
Open Access
- 25 January 2005
- journal article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 2 (1), e7
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020007
Abstract
Physicians often recommend to older adults that they should engage in mentally stimulating activity to reduce the risk of dementia. But is this recommendation based on sound evidence?Keywords
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