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.

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    1 month ago

    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.

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    1 month ago

    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