![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/neuroscientists-three-step-trick-could-help-make-your-brain-50-years-younger/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0_Doctor-viewing-brain-scans-for-possible-disease-or-damage-in-clinic.jpg&description=There are a number of challenges you can do yourself that could help to lower your brain age, reducing it by decades, according to a developmental cognitive neuroscientist As you get older, you start to realise things change and one of the biggest changes you will notice is your brain. Things such as memory loss, becoming unable to retain as much information, and lack of concentration can happen, but there are little things you can do to retrain your brain and help lower your brain age, making it decades younger. Simple activities such as challenging yourself and learning new skills can help with this, and speaking on his podcast Stay Young, Dr Michael Mosley shares ways in which you can even make it up to 50 years younger. He explains: "Scientists have studied people in their 70s and found they were able to perform as well on memory tests as someone decades younger." In a recent episode of the podcast, Dr Mosley spoke to developmental cognitive neuroscientist Dr Rachel Wu from the University of California Riverside, who is an expert in infant and child developmental psychology, who has previously conducted research that supports the benefits of challening yourself and your brain. Dr Wu explained how children learn various skills all at the same time whilst growing up and she decided to test whether it would also be beneficial for adults to adopt this learning style as well. As part of her study, she took a group of older adults and had them get books out as if they were back at school. They had to do homework, learn langauges and try new skills such as photography. Learning both creative and academic skills, they were posed challenges, in a bid to sharpen their minds on things they didn't already know and amazingly, they started to perform cognitive abilities similar to those up to 50 years younger. Speaking about her research to Dr Mosley, she explains: "The design of the latest study involved having a group of older adults that came in to do at least three new sk){kind=link}
There are a number of challenges you can do yourself that could help to lower your brain age, reducing it by decades, according to a developmental cognitive neuroscientist
As you get older, you start to realise things change and one of the biggest changes you will notice is your brain. Things such as memory loss, becoming unable to retain as much information, and lack of concentration can happen, but there are little things you can do to retrain your brain and help lower your brain age, making it decades younger.
Simple activities such as challenging yourself and learning new skills can help with this, and speaking on his podcast Stay Young, Dr Michael Mosley shares ways in which you can even make it up to 50 years younger.
He explains: “Scientists have studied people in their 70s and found they were able to perform as well on memory tests as someone decades younger.”
In a recent episode of the podcast, Dr Mosley spoke to developmental cognitive neuroscientist Dr Rachel Wu from the University of California Riverside, who is an expert in infant and child developmental psychology, who has previously conducted research that supports the benefits of challening yourself and your brain.