Researchers believe the association between navigation-heavy work and lower Alzheimer’s risk centers on the hippocampus, a part of the brain that governs memory and spatial navigation. It’s one of the first brain regions that Alzheimer’s damages: Problems with spatial navigation and orientation are among the earliest signs of the disease, sometimes surfacing before obvious memory loss.
Please stop posting this. It is a very overbroad claim based on minimal evidence. The risk reduction is not statistically significant even if we accept all of the limitations with case definitions.
OP = cm0002 = check his 32 other accounts
Ok, so in a few decades we will see a weird spike of Alzheimer’s in the western world, a spike that is COMPLETELY UNRELATED to AI chat bots
Just like how all the dementia deaths in the UK are because they’re so much better at dealing with heart problems than everyone else and has absolutely nothing to do with latent mad cow infections.
I knew all the video game maps I could fit into this bad boy would pay off
you can die from Alzheimer’s?
I don’t know how it happens, but it’s something I’ve heard a few times.
1: Dementia related deaths also count things like falls, wandering into traffic, or poisoning yourself from the loss of faculties.
2: Yes, Alzheimer’s causes physical brain damage. In late stages this interferes with organ function and can cause failures.
3: The most common cause of death is actually pneumonia because the loss of motor functions leads to patients aspirating food particles.
