BBC: Three enjoyable ways to slow your brain's ageing

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

BBC: Three enjoyable ways to slow your brain's ageing

"...The brain area important for spatial navigation, the hippocampus, is believed to be the first part of the brain affected in Alzheimer's disease......For instance, studies show that ambulance and taxi drivers have among the lowest rates of Alzheimer's-related mortality compared with other roles, precisely because these drivers had been using their brain more for "spatial processing", the researchers propose. It's also long been known that taxi drivers who had spent years learning the city's streets without the use of a map, have an enlarged hippocampus...."

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260508-three-impactful-ways-to-protect-your-brain-from-ageing

#maps #mapping #gis

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

*** Interesting, "reading a map/navigating" is #1 in this list. One of the skills a great deal of the people I know have turned over to their smartphones. I wonder if all the outsourcing of your brain to computers (and soon, AI) is going to encourage more early onset dementia.

[douglasvb@m.ai6yr.org]

@ai6yr I wonder if mentally picturing something and rotating it around in your mind would have similar benefits

You can just envision a cow and rotate it. No one can stop you

[teledyn@mstdn.ca]

@douglasvb @ai6yr

Imagine a perfectly spherical cow suitably free of gravitational influences…

[douglasvb@m.ai6yr.org]

@teledyn @ai6yr I do that every morning as I'm preparing to ignore drag coefficients

[w6kme@mastodon.radio]

@douglasvb @teledyn @ai6yr Ooh, is it on a frictionless plane?

[teledyn@mstdn.ca]

@W6KME @douglasvb @ai6yr

So important to define our terms