David Holtzman, ANA president and professor and chair of neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, says there is no objective data that specific strategies work aside from a 2015 study conducted in Finland that showed that elderly people who were cognitively normal or had a mild impairment maintained or increased their cognitive ability over two years with exercise, cognitive training and vascular-risk monitoring. “Right now,” Dr. Holtzman said,” if you lead an active, heart-healthy , pro-brain lifestyle, there’s not much that we can tell somebody that they should do differently.”
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