{"id":3694,"date":"2016-07-25T16:25:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T20:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3694"},"modified":"2016-07-25T16:25:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T20:25:18","slug":"play-on-in-a-first-brain-training-cuts-risk-of-dementia-10-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3694","title":{"rendered":"Play on! In a first, brain training cuts risk of dementia 10 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sharon Begley for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">F<\/span>or the first time ever, researchers have managed to reduce people\u2019s risk for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/04\/12\/alzheimers-disease-colombia\/\" target=\"_blank\">dementia<\/a> \u2014 not through a medicine, special diet, or exercise, but by having healthy older adults play a computer-based brain-training game. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/07\/24\/brain-training-cuts-dementia-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The 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.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sharon Begley for STAT) For the first time ever, researchers have managed to reduce people\u2019s risk for dementia \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3695,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions\/3695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}