How brain training apps, puzzles and reading keep the mind sharp, and ward off dementia | Laptop News

Remaining cognitively active, studies have found, can delay dementia by several years in vulnerable older adults.

Games are certainly good at stimulating our grey matter, and can be good for mental health as the need to focus can be distracting and calming. But to have value, experts say, they must challenge you.

The Alzheimer’s Association, based in the US state of Illinois, suggests the best way to build cognitive muscle is to “stump yourself”. If the puzzles you undertake no longer foil you – because you’ve cracked the code or because they have become so familiar – they will not be much more than just a daily habit.

“Learning and remembering are great for the brain and increase the volume of the hippocampus,” says Professor Barbara Sahakian of the University of Cambridge’s department of psychiatry.
The hippocampus, a seahorse-shaped structure deep in the temporal lobe, helps to form, organise and store long-term memories. It shrinks with age, and at a faster rate in the face of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Learning and brain-training apps can help exercise it, to restore and improve its function.

There are thousands of games available as apps. The brain training app market was estimated to be worth almost US$10 billion in 2023 and is expected to increase sixfold by 2031.

As Sahakian observes, though, not all games are created equal. They need to really test you to make a difference and they need…

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