Web searches keep seniors mentally sharp....

[tittat]

Time spent Googling the latest campaign news or searching for choice buys on eBay may help stimulate and improve the minds of middle-age and older Americans, suggest UCLA scientists.
Research reported in next month's American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry is the first to assess how performing Internet searches impacts brain activity in older Americans, says study author Gary Small, professor at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA.

The research included 24 healthy volunteers ages 55 to 76. Half had Internet-searching experience, while the others had none. All were asked to perform Web searches and book-reading tasks while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans, which recorded the brain-circuitry changes they were experiencing.

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[sunils]

good find. So need to use google a lot in middle ages.

[Smith6612]

Sounds neat. I always personally thought that despite what I'm told, the internet actually makes the brain stronger, and it does. If something breaks, you have to figure out what is broken and how to fix it if you can, and besides, there's loads of information on everything out there. So I'm not really suprised, just happy that they did a study on this.