MENTAL FITNESS

MENTAL FITNESS

There is good news, however. When an elderly brain gets regular mental exercise and remains free of disorders such as dementia, it maintains capacities for abstract and analytical thinking, expression, and other higher functions. If memory remains intact, vocabulary and knowledge of the world expand with time, and communication can become more sophisticated. The storehouse of wisdom accumulated in a well-aged brain becomes a treasure of experience built up over a lifetime. An elderly brain may not react as quickly as a youthful one, but it can be just as complex, or even more so.