{"id":25056,"date":"2025-10-23T08:50:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25056"},"modified":"2025-10-23T08:51:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:51:19","slug":"mental-exercise-can-reverse-a-brain-change-linked-to-aging-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25056","title":{"rendered":"Mental exercise can reverse a brain change linked to aging, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists are reporting the first compelling evidence in people that cognitive training can boost levels of a brain chemical that typically declines with age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 10-week study of people 65 or older found that doing rigorous mental exercises for 30 minutes a day increased levels of the chemical messenger acetylcholine by 2.3% in a brain area involved in attention and memory.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/10\/22\/nx-s1-5581409\/mental-exercise-reverse-brain-change-aging-acetylcholine\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/10\/22\/nx-s1-5581409\/mental-exercise-reverse-brain-change-aging-acetylcholine\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jon Hamilton for NPR) Scientists are reporting the first compelling evidence in people that cognitive training can boost levels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26],"tags":[92,116,1874,94],"class_list":["post-25056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-alzheimersdementia","tag-aging","tag-alzheimers-disease","tag-brain-health","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25058,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25056\/revisions\/25058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}