Posted on January - 21 - 2012
Reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s
A new study from UC Berkeley has uncovered physical evidence that people who challenge themselves intellectually could be decreasing their risk of developing Alzheimer’s Disease, and the clues are visible in their brains.
Just finishing a crossword puzzle can be difficult once Alzheimer’s Disease has set in. But researchers have long suspected that doing similar activities throughout your life-time could help keep the disease at bay. Now a team at UC Berkeley has taken that notion of use it or lose it a step further by studying deposits of amyloid plaque in the brain, which are believed to be linked with Alzheimer’s.
“What this study showed is that it’s not just a matter of this protecting you from the effects of the amyloid, for example,” said Dr.