Based on the results of the latest studies, doctors and researchers believe that Alzheimer's disease - a form of dementia unfortunately very common and still incurable - can be prevented in various ways.
Mental stimulation and cognitive abilities are one of these.
In fact, it has been shown that nerve cells in the brain are like muscle cells : if they are kept in training, they atrophy more slowly and live better; vice versa, if they are not used, they lose their abilities like for example that of interacting with each other or transmitting nerve signals.
Entering into details, they represent a good training for brain neurons:
- Learn something new . Studying a foreign language (NB: bilingual people are less at risk of getting Alzheimer's), learning sign language, reading books and newspapers, applying in the study of a musical instrument never played in life and / or engaging in a new hobby they are all healthy activities for the human brain and its cells.
- Exercise your memory . Exercises for the memory are exercises of the type: list the main capitals of Europe or the Italian provincial capitals, create connections between events (for example, the year of birth of a person and the year in which a famous sporting event took place ), store phone numbers, dates and passwords, remember the shopping list and so on.
- Delight yourself daily in strategy games, card games, crosswords, puzzles or riddles . These are all activities that rely on the cognitive abilities of the human brain. Therefore, if they are practiced daily, neurons remain in constant exercise.
- Analyze, in detail, the various daily activities . The English would say to always ask themselves the so-called "5 W", that is: Who (who?), What (what?), Where (where?), When (when?), Why (why?). These questions and their answers represent an excellent exercise for a person's intellectual abilities.
- "Follow the road less traveled" . It is a metaphor that wants to indicate how important it is to vary one's habits or the things one has to do with habitually. For example, it may be useful to try to eat with the "weak" hand (the left hand, for right-handed people; the right hand for left-handed people), to reorganize with a different criterion one's own library or the files of one's computer and so on.
