Believes a team of scientists in the United States use the Internet activates the brain, at least in people middle-aged or elderly.
The scientific team found the University of California Los Angeles to browse web sites raises decision-making and complex thinking in the brain.
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Scientists in the study - reported by the American journal of Psychiatry for the Elderly
Such activity may help delay the physical changes related to
Age, which lead to a slowing down of the brain.
With age, get a number of changes including a decline in the activity of the cells, which in turn can affect the performance of the person.
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Some studies have indicated that mental activities such as crossword puzzles, you may
Help to minimize the effect of such changes, and add a recent study
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The study was conducted on 24 volunteers aged between 55 and 76 years old, half of whom are familiar with a large internet, unlike the rest.
Of the sample had been subjected to electronic scan of the brain while they were browsing the Internet, or read a book.
It was shown that the two activities lead to activity in brain regions that control the queens language, reading, memory and vision.
But browse the web raised places in the brain are not provoked to read the books, but I also have established have a habit of browsing the Internet.
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Scientists countered that the use of web users to put
Several options, to put pressure on the link that will lead them to the desired information