Mental Exercise Linked to Reduced Dementia Risk and Sleep Improvement
A study suggests that a specific form of brain training from the 1990s may significantly reduce dementia risk for decades, while cognitive shuffling is explored as a potential remedy for sleeplessness.
18 Feb, 11:00 — 18 Feb, 11:00
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I tried the latest sleep trick – and my husband and I were up all night | Polly Hudson
Cognitive shuffling is apparently the remedy for a spinning mind at 3am. But it made me question all my choices A doctor has gone viral – which sounds like the beginning of a dad joke, but isn’t – with a hack for getting back to sleep if you wake at 3am. Cognitive shuffling is apparently the remedy for a spinning mind in the middle of the night. “Work, money, kids, planning, scheduling, problem solving. Your brain is too active to let you sleep – in fact the stress of all these thoughts tells the brain that it’s not safe to sleep, you have to stay on high alert,” says Bradford GP Amir Khan. Cognitive shuffling interrupts this process, and invites your brain to go into sleep mode. Khan says to do it, choose a random word – like “bed”, or “dream” – then think of objects starting with each letter of it, while picturing them in your head. “Bed begins with b, so maybe bat, binoculars, baseball, banana,” he adds, helpfully, “Once I’ve exhausted the letter b I move on to e – emu, elephant, eyes. And so on.” Continue reading...
By Polly Hudson
Read full article →This form of mental exercise may cut dementia risk for decades
A study finds that people who did one specific form of brain training in the 1990s were less likely to be diagnosed with dementia over the next 20 years.
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