Educating the brain to avoid dementia: can mental exercise prevent Alzheimer disease?
review · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 15696217.
- Also identified by PMC identifier 545200.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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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?
Medical subject headings
- Alzheimer Disease
- Cognition