¿Qué ejercicios pueden estimular la atención y la memoria?

Exercise reduces the odds of developing heart disease, stroke and diabetes. When it comes to your brain, physical exercise: improves blood flow and memory stimulates chemical changes in the brain that enhance learning, mood and thinking changes the brain in ways that protect memory and thinking skills. Clearly physical exercise can help your brain stay healthy. In addition, recent research indicates that mental exercise, often referred to as “brain training,” can keep our brains young and healthy as well. Some studies suggest that brain training activities have helped older adult brains remain mentally sharper for an additional 10 years. Brain training can improve: Attention/Concentration – focus on a specific task and concentrate on the task long enough to accomplish it successfully. Thinking – process information, make connections, make decisions and create new ideas. Memory – gather, store, and retrieve information for short- and long-term use. To really flex our brain muscles, we need to increase new learning opportunities. For instance, have you always wanted to learn French? Or have you thought about becoming a Master Gardener? Maybe take up Mahjong? In all these cases you’d be learning new things rather than repeating familiar mental exercise activities. This helps to create that cognitive reserve.