from Frontiers of Aging Neuroscience
Do you feel you have more things to do than you can get done in a day? As frustrating as that may be for some of us, those over age fifty should look upon a busy daily lifestyle as a good thing. Information taken from the Dallas Lifespan Brain Study and appearing in the journal Frontiers of Aging Neuroscience shows people over fifty who report higher levels of daily busyness tend to have better cognition performance, especially memory of recently learned information. Further, people of any age, regardless of education, with a busier lifestyle show better brain performance, including working memory, reasoning and vocabulary. This does not prove that being busy directly improves cognition, but busy people may have more opportunities to exercise their brains.