This is Your Brain on Google

A brain study conducted by Dr. Gary Small, a UCLA expert on aging, found that people who search the Internet use more of their brain while engaging in Internet searching.

This suggests that just searching on the Internet may train the brain -- that it may keep it active and healthy," said Small, whose research appears in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

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60 Minutes A Blow To The Brain -- This is Your Brain on Football (Video and Text)

60 Minutes A Blow To The Brain -- This is Your Brain on Football (Video and Text)


A recent Harris Interactive poll found that more than 100 million Americans have been touched by Alzheimer's. The same poll found that more than 33 million Americans fear Alzheimer's.

A week ago I wrote this article -- The NFLs Dirty Little Secret--Early Onset Alzheimer's at a Young Age.
In that research study researchers found that 6.1 percent of players age 50 and above reported that they had received a dementia-related diagnosis, five times higher than the national average, 1.2 percent.
Now this 60 minutes report -- A Blow To The Brain -- indicates that head trauma can lead to dementia.

Parents, friends, and family of football players might want to take a good hard look at these findings. They might also want to learn more about Alzheimer's and dementia.