In a July 1994 Life magazine article by Daniel Golden, Building a Better Brain (download the full article below) he quotes Dr. Arnold Scheibel, former head of UCLA’s Brain Research Institute who said, “Anything that is intellectually challenging can probably serve as a stimulus for dendritic growth, which adds to the computational reserves in your brain.”

Do puzzles -… researchers agree that it is never too late. All of life should be a learning experience because then we are challenging our brain and building brain circuitry. Literally, this is how the brain works.

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