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Does having to figure things out on your own protect your brain better than other kinds of activities? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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People who received memory and reasoning training or those who didn’t receive any brain training were more likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease twenty years down the road than those who did cognitive speed training, which required them to … Does having to figure things out on your own protect your brain better than other kinds of activities? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read More »

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