Showing posts with label brains. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brains. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Brain power via the web?

"Internet use 'good for the brain'

Areas activated by reading a book in the brain of an experienced web user
For middle aged and older people at least, using the internet helps boost brain power, research suggests.
A University of California Los Angeles team found searching the web stimulates centres in the brain that control decision-making and complex reasoning."

That’s great for me …. Its hard to believe its less than twenty years ago that I first touched a computer, that I was then 51 when I got my first email address, using libraries computers and then a year later my first laptop! Now I find at 63 I often am the person to help others sort out issues or functions on their computer and have my own website. (http://www.kiwitravelwriter.com/)

Read more about the study - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7667610.stm