Reading protects a human from mental deficiency- VIDEO
Monday, 26 November 2012 15:09
In a special report of the annual conference of the Radiological Society of North America – RSNA was reported, that scientists from Rush University in Chicago, under the leadership of Konstantinos Arfanakis from Institute of Technology in Chicago, reported on their research, according to which, it was found, that the active intellectual activity, and in particular- reading, well to save the white matter of the brain a dense and healthy and protect against the onset of dementia. According to Konstantinos Arfanakis, in the study were involved 152 volunteers, whose average age was about 81 years, none of the volunteers suffered from disorders of memory and attention, the brain of volunteers throughout the year regularly scanned by diffuse spectral imaging. As a result, it was found, that the selective permeability of the white matter of the brain was much better in those volunteers, who are regularly engaged in reading, THE VIDEO:
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