How using computers can help keep your mind sharp
Even if you've never touched a keyboard before and you think Twitter is a sound birds make, you could start activating dormant brain cells with just a few searches of the Internet. A study presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting that included 12 Internet neophytes, ages 55 to 78, found that searching online an hour a day for seven days led to real changes in brain activity as seen on an MRI scan.
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