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Educating the Brain to Avoid Dementia Can Mental Exercise Prevent Alzheimer Disease 英文参考文献

Open access, freely available online Best Practice Educating the Brain to Avoid Dementia: Can Mental Exercise Prevent Alzheimer Disease? Margaret Gatz P hysicians now commonly advise older adults to engage in mentally stimulating activity as a But can it hurt? Possibly. There are two ways that encouraging mental activity programs might do more harm than good. First, they may offer false hope. Second, individuals who do develop dementia might be blamed for their condition. When heavy smokers get lung cancer, they are sometimes seen as having contributed to their own fates. People with Alzheimer disease might similarly be viewed as having brought it on themselves through failure to exercise their brains. prevalence of Alzheimer disease in cross-sectional, population-based studies [1] and to a lower incidence of Alzheimer disease in cohorts followed way of reducing their risk of dementia. Indeed, the recommendation is often followed by the acknowledgment that evidence of bene?t is still lacking, but “it can’t hurt.” What could possibly be the problem with older adults spending their time doing crossword puzzles and anagrams, completing ?gural logic puzzles, or testing their reaction time on a computer? In certain respects, there is no problem. Patients will probably improve at the targeted skills, and may feel good—particularly if the activity is both challenging and successfully completed. Citation: Gatz M (2005) Educating the brain to avoid dementia: Can mental exercise prevent Alzheimer disease? PLoS Med 2(1): e7. Copyright: ? 2005 Margaret Gatz. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. What Does the Evidence Show? Margaret Gatz is in the Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, and the Department of