Open AccessEducating the Brain to Avoid Dementia: Can Mental Exercise Prevent Alzheimer Disease?
Author(s) -
Margaret Gatz
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
plos medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.847
H-Index - 228
eISSN - 1549-1676
pISSN - 1549-1277
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020007
Subject(s) - dementia , alzheimer's disease , medicine , disease , gerontology , psychiatry , intensive care medicine
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?
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