Apparently! Internet Can Prevent senile

Use of the Internet not only serves as a line of communication and information for the entire world, was able to prevent dementia for Older People (Aged). It was revealed from the results of the research at the University of California Los Angels, USA, which says 'searching' the web stimulates centers of the brain that control decision-making and complex thoughts.

"The use of the Internet to improve and train brain functions, as involve control memory and visual resources will also work just as well as reading. Controls memory and it also adds to the visual power of brain activity to control the decisions and considerations in the Internet program," said Professor Gary Small, lead researcher, as listed in the American of Geriatric Psychiatry and articles computer.

The study involved 24 volunteers aged between 55 and 76 and half of them are Internet users and the rest are not. Each volunteer was treated brain scans when they are searching the web and reading tasks.

Both types of task produced evidence of significant activity of the brain controlling language, reading, memory and visual abilities. Although, searching Web produced significant additional activity in a separate part of the brain that control decision-making and complex thought, but only in people who are users web / internet only.

The researchers said that compared to regular reading, the Internet asks people to vote on what to click to get the relevant information. However, they stated that newcomers to the web do not have the strategies needed to successfully carry out a web search / internet successfully.

While Rebecca Wood, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Research Trust, said the middle-aged and older people can reduce the risk of dementia brain stagnation, by taking part in routine activities that are mentally stimulating. "Users of the web or the internet that can improve the logic and thought Dapa and reduce the risk of dementia,"