Researchers announced on Monday that a randomised controlled trial considered the gold standard for medical research has finally identified something capable of significantly lowering peoples risk of developing dementia.
And rather than an expensive drug, it was a cheap and simple brain-training exercise that was found to decrease dementia rates by a quarter, according to the study.
A gold-standard studyFor the first time, this is a gold-standard study thats given us an idea of what we can do to reduce risk for developing dementia, study co-author Marilyn Albert of Johns Hopkins University in the United States told AFP.
