Among physically healthy seniors, advancing age often takes a toll on memory and other mental abilities. There’s encouraging news, though, for those who want to boost their brainpower.
A brief training course in any of three domains of thought–memory, reasoning, or visual concentration–yields marked improvement on tests of these cognitive skills, according to the largest geriatric study to date of these instructional techniques.
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