As this blog has focused, neurodegenerative diseases are and have been one of the greatest risks of modern societies. These diseases progressively affect cognitive abilities, causing symptoms such as loss of focus, memory loss, difficulty of location, difficulty of communication, among others.
Although today we currently have pharmacological drugs to try to attack these diseases. Each time, the well-known mental gymnastics is showing itself as a great tool to maintain cognitive health.
There are many exercises and techniques at our disposal to exercise memory, language, reasoning, calculation, reading and writing, concentration.
The interesting thing about this issue is that they not only serve to maintain the capacities of sick people, but it has also been shown that in healthy people it can delay or prevent the onset of the disease.
These people can benefit from having a better access to the information they have in the brain, or reducing the memory failures they may suffer even if they do not suffer from any disease.
These exercises can be as simple as doing sudoku, word searches, crossword puzzles or trying to complete a rubik cube.