Educating the Brain to Avoid Dementia: Can Mental Exercise Prevent Alzheimer Disease?

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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Autor principal: Gatz, Margaret
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2005
Materias:
Best Practice
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC545200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15696217
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020007
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spelling pubmed-5452002005-01-25 Educating the Brain to Avoid Dementia: Can Mental Exercise Prevent Alzheimer Disease? Gatz, Margaret PLoS Med Best Practice 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? Public Library of Science 2005-01 2005-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC545200/ /pubmed/15696217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020007 Text en Copyright: © 2005 Margaret Gatz. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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title_short Educating the Brain to Avoid Dementia: Can Mental Exercise Prevent Alzheimer Disease?
title_sort educating the brain to avoid dementia: can mental exercise prevent alzheimer disease?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC545200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15696217
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020007
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