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Can Googling delay the onset of dementia?

A new UCLA study, part of the growing research into the effects of technology on the brain, shows that searching the Internet may keep older brains agile - it's like taking your brain for a walk.
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It's too early to conclude that technology will help vanquish Alzheimer's disease, but "our study shows that when your brain is on Google, your neural circuitry changes extensively," said psychiatrist Gary Small, director of UCLA's Memory & Aging Research Center.

The new study, which will be published next month in the Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, comes at a time when medical experts are forecasting that Alzheimer's cases will quadruple by 2050. In response to such projections, "brain-gyms" and memory-building computer programs have proliferated.

dmdilks wrote:So what are you saying that some of us ooooold guys need to surf the net more and stop playing the video games.

Mr. Chris wrote:I was gonna reply to this but......................... I forgot what it was about?

Oh, that's right he's the guy we elected, right? Oh, wait, Dementia is his daughter, right?

I think I'm gonna go play ET:QW for a few hours. And I'll wear my Googles. Uh, goggles.

Can I Google for goggles? Chris.

Now if I can just find my mouse (no, not the one in my pocket)