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HOUSTON: Oct. 16: Surfing Internet for long hours can help elderly and middle-aged people in sharpening their minds, says a study.
Searching the web triggers key centres in the brain that control decision-making and complex reasoning and may help stimulate and possibly improve brain functions, claims a team of researchers at the University of California Los Angeles. “Internet searching engages complicated brain activity, which may help exercise and improve brain function,” said Dr Gary Small, an ageing expert of UCLA.
“This suggests that just searching on the Internet may train the brain ~ that it may keep it active and healthy,” said Dr Small whose research was published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. Many studies have found that challenging mental activities such as puzzles can help preserve brain function, but few have looked at what role the Internet might play.
“This is the first time anyone has simulated an Internet search task while scanning the brain,” Dr Small said.
His team studied a group of 24 volunteers between the ages of 55 and 76. Half of them were experienced in searching Internet and the other half had no exposure of net searching. Both the groups were asked to do Internet searches and book reading tasks while their brain activity was monitored.
“We found that while reading books, the visual cortex ~ a part of the brain that controls reading and language ~ was activated,” Dr Small said. ~ PTI



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guardian.co.uk - 14 Oct 2008
It's true. The further north men live, the grubbier their hands. Not women; only men Men of the north, hang your heads in shame.



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