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Cognitive Training May Bestow Long-Term Benefits for Seniors

Clinical and Research News March 20, 2014  DOI: 10.1176/appi.pn.2014.3b3 Joan Arehart-Treichel   Training elderly individuals in reasoning and speed-of-information processing tasks, but not memory, resulted in sustained or improved cognitive abilities a decade later.   A large multisite, randomized, controlled clinical trial has found that cognitive training can benefit seniors up to a decade after they’ve […]