Exercise Your Mind

The more you work the brain, the more likely they are to ward off Alzheimer's disease

Only a modest amount of mental stimulation can do much to ward off Alzheimer's disease. This is the opinion of researchers that genetically altered mice into a state similar to that created.

Researchers at the University of California-Irvine studied hundreds of mice altered to develop their anomalies such as plaques and tangles in the brain, known asCharacteristic of Alzheimer's disease in humans. Writing on Tuesday in the Journal of Neuroscience, said he exercises regularly swimming in a tub of water until finding a submerged platform in a stand-delayed development of these abnormalities in mice.

"The strange thing was that only rarely to learn, yet had a dramatic effect on Alzheimer's disease," said Kim Green, one of the researchers.

"So it is natural that the people that whenTo learn more and more, this is a huge positive impact, "said Green.

The results suggest an idea that has emerged in other research that the mind of one who carries out the importance of rejecting the Alzheimer's disease, a degenerative brain disease that is the most common form of dementia in the elderly.

Smart-Link Green noted that other studies have found that highly educated people less likely to develop Alzheimer's than people with lessEducation.

There is no known cure for Alzheimer's disease, which gradually destroys a person's memory and ability to learn, reason, communicate, evaluate and carry out daily activities.

"What we showed is that learning through the promotion of your mind, you are able to object associated with the development of the pathology of the disease to protect," said Green.

"To read the books of crossword puzzles, learning a new language, everything can be done to stimulate the brainhis lead, we think. "

The mice were given "a very mild learning experience" the most significant figure of a labyrinth, but in water for a week to once every three months. The meetings have been four times daily for one week to two months, six, nine, 12, 15 and 18.

The rats performed the task experienced slower development of clots protein beta-amyloid plaques in the brain and form the sticky property that meets outside of nerve cells, the studyfound.

These mice also have a slower development of another protein in the brain. Hyperphosphorylation of tau, which can cause the formation of neurofibrillary tangles-twisted fibers lead in brain cells.

Green said the researchers, the question of whether the learning sessions more frequent and intense it may appear to lead to stronger and more lasting benefits.

Alzheimer's disease affects the first part of the brain that controls memory and thinking. As it advances it kills cells elsewhere inthe brain. Eventually, if the patient has no other serious illness, loss of brain function will prove fatal.

There are other tools, or mental training techniques that help the brain synergy, ie the two halves., Left and right hemisphere. It has long been in the scientific world that the left hemisphere is responsible for logic, as the functions of thinking and mathematics, while the right hemisphere is involved known for creative,imaginative and artistic characteristics of an individual.

Einstein is the most important person in the left-right synergy of technology used in the formulation of his famous equation of light and matter, E = mc2 have. Using special tools or mind mind training methods developed in the last century and especially in the last 50 years people have known, developed phenomenal feats of memory as the allocation of hundreds of names and faces, the long arithmetic formulas, and long fileAll figures in a matter of minutes or seconds.

If the memorization of long strings of numbers (more than 10 points), no practical application is an open question. But there is the spirit of the training they need to remove (not cure) Alzheimer's disease. These techniques are very easy to learn, once learned and used quite often stays with you for life and can save enormous amounts of information that the brain at school, work or normal daily use. However,Most people go about their daily lives, without knowing how wonderful techniques are available.