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How CW Can Protect You From Dementia

In May 2018, researchers recruited a few hundred folks between ages 60 and 90 for a study. While some remained nearly as mentally sharp as they had been in their younger days, many were determined to exhibit moderately degraded cognitive skills and some were in the early stages of dementia. All were given a task: Learn the Morse Code.

Published in the journal , the study was aimed at analyzing the changes in cognitive ability of those seniors, gained through a brain exercise that would take advantage of . Neuroplasticity is a process of , the production of new neural

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