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Ten sessions of exercises that the ability of thought, memory and mental processing speed, resisted strengthening mental decline in middle-aged and older people in the first definitive study to show that can improve the intellectual capacity, improve the light the same way that physical activity protects and strengthens the body.

The researchers have also shown that the benefits of the brain extends far learned about the special abilities of the volunteer training. Seniors who have the basic exercises that were not followed by later sessions three times faster than those containing only the first few sessions, when it comes to tasks of daily life, such as for example, receive the response to any sign, call a number from the phonebook or check the ingredients in a medicine bottle - abilities that require the difference between life and help make independently.

Experts said the study is funded by the federal government, a call to action for those who are still concerned about the development of dementia, Alzheimer's and related disorders. Americans spend billions of dollars each year on their physical well-being, but there are no comparable efforts to keep people mentally agile and strong.
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If anything, the study suggests there is a larger payment to the spiritual exercise, since the training sessions short tremendous benefits seemed more like five years later gives. It would be like if someone went to the gym Monday through Friday during the first two weeks of the new year has not practice for five years, and still saw significant physical benefits in 2012.

The researchers divided the subjects into four groups, including a control group who have not completed training. A second group was trained in the argument - is asked to identify the patterns of sequence "A, C, E, G, I, for instance - all other letters of the alphabet. A third group was taught memory performance involves the memory of word lists and with visualizations and associations as memory aids. A fourth group was given exercises to speed up mental processing - are invited to identify an object flashed briefly on a computer screen by the distractions.

Each group was founded, 10 sessions, each of one hour and 75 minutes, and each session presented more difficult problems. Compared with the control group who were trained memory was not 75 percent more later on the memory tasks five years, those who received reasoning training rather than the 40 per cent better quality of reasoning tasks, and those who received training performance 300 percent better than the control group.

Researchers noted that mental skills can sometimes compensate for physical disabilities: Knowing how to find, directions and find a new route on the map, for example, it could be someone who has the mobility to keep even after their night vision reduced to the point where driving on certain roads becomes difficult.

The study followed 2802 healthy adults from different backgrounds, which averaged 73 years. Even if it does not focus on the effects of mental exercise on people who had begun, signs of Alzheimer's studies, or other disorders of the brain show were prior to the conclusion that everyone can benefit.

"People think education is for people who are already educated says," Michael Marsiske, one of the researchers. "This kind of training works no matter where you are in society."

"If you think you've come to a point in your life where learning is impossible and there are no benefits of continuing mental activity, the study shows that for many people, that n is not true," added Marsiske, a clinical health psychologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

The study participants ranged from 65 to their early 90s, but Marsiske said the findings apply to people in their 50s or even younger. Mental skills acquired earlier in life persist well into old age, "he said.

"I do not play video games with my son, but I say to myself, I challenge," said Marsiske, 41 "What I personally of the study is if you can learn new challenge, something that is not easy at first, they have dividends."

The study does not indicate that mental training you can absorb all cognitive decline permanently. Rather, it seemed the case with physical exercise, strengthening the mind disappears.

Sherry L. Willis, lead author of the study and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania about human development, said those who had the training also reported greater confidence in their ability to solve everyday problems, and this is especially true for the group that arguments are trained. In carrying out the daily tasks that people who received training speed along a handful of follow-up sessions significantly better than those without such training.

The results are published today by the journal of the American Medical Association, heartening, but Willis and Marsiske noted that the biggest challenge that lies before us, the people on the results, her life encouraging. Whether encouraging people to eat well or exercise, they said, not the hardest to do to start them they are good things, but encourage them to continue to do things right.

"It's like physical activity - if we approach the new year we will buy a pass for the gym and go fervently in January and then decline," said Willis. "Practice is the intellectual equivalent manner. It must be coordinated with each other, and it must be difficult. As you increase the weights at the gym, make it difficult to have to do the same with mental activity to continue."

To secure the benefits, said Willis, people have to leave their comfort zone. For someone who wants to solve the puzzle, it is important to make sure that the puzzles are even harder with time - or starts to play chess. Someone who hates to play games, she said, was something else that will find the spirit of routes. Mental activities should not be expensive toys, everyday life can offer a range of mental challenges. Find a friend to join a new activity can can, a powerful motivator, "she added.

Said Sally Shumaker, a professor of public health at Wake Forest University in North Carolina who wrote an editorial accompanying the study, he opened the door to a future where mental training is widely available.

"I do not have a situation in which facilities are in community centers, libraries and aging centers are available, which includes some games that can play specially to improve cognitive abilities can imagine," she said. "People are afraid of cognitive decline, and the idea of a small and simple interventions can have an influence, is very convincing."