How to keep your brain healthy
HEALTH
Want to keep those neurons firing? Think of your brain as a muscle and keep flexing it. Doing crosswords, learning a new language or skill changes the brain’s structure and helps to ward off any deterioration in the brain, including age-related diseases, according to Dr Brenton Hordacre from UniSA's Body in Mind Research Group.
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