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Brain Health and Challenges Quiz

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What was a key finding from the Religious Orders Study involving nuns?

Nuns with Alzheimer's disease had severe cognitive deficits while alive.

All nuns in the study displayed cognitive deficits post-mortem.

Some nuns had Alzheimer's disease but did not exhibit cognitive deficits while alive. (correct)

Nuns with Alzheimer's disease showed cognitive deficits only after death.

Which factor among the activities in the convents was suggested to help fight against brain degeneration?

Isolation from others

Alone time

Social interactions (correct)

Watching TV alone

Why is seeking novelty and challenges important for brain health?

To make the brain deteriorate faster

To avoid any kind of challenge

To maintain the brain engaged and build new pathways (correct)

To have a negative impact on cognitive function

What is recommended in the text to maintain a balance for stimulating brain health?

<p>Frustrating but achievable tasks</p> Signup and view all the answers

How did the nuns' lifestyle in convents contribute to their brain health according to the text?

<p>By building new neural connections through social interactions, responsibilities, games, and conversations</p> Signup and view all the answers

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Seeking novelty and challenges is crucial for brain health, especially as people age.
The Religious Orders Study involved nuns who volunteered to donate their brains after death, revealing that some had Alzheimer's disease without showing cognitive deficits while alive.
Despite brain degeneration from Alzheimer's, the nuns' active lifestyles in convents with social interactions, responsibilities, games, and conversations helped build new neural connections and fight against tissue degeneration.
It is important to seek new and varied challenges to keep the brain engaged and build new pathways continuously.
The key is to maintain a balance between tasks that are frustrating but achievable to stimulate brain health and cognitive function.

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Test your knowledge on how seeking novelty and challenges is vital for brain health, especially with aging. Explore the findings from the Religious Orders Study on nuns and how their lifestyles helped combat brain degeneration. Learn about the importance of engaging in new and varied challenges to maintain cognitive function.