Alzheimers
filed in Links on May.08, 2001
“Several years ago, Snowdon and his colleagues analyzed 180 autobiographies written by the nuns in their early 20s. They found that the elderly sisters who expressed themselves at a more complex level in their earlier essays were less likely to show signs of Alzheimer’s disease as they aged.”
May 9th, 2001 on 3:30 pm
I once read an article about that. They studied the nuns’ brains, looking for lesions that might be connected to the disease. And long before that, I found out that “exercising your brain,” as it was put, is the best way to prevent it. (Not having a stroke is also a good idea!)
It seems kinda morbid that there were all these scientists hanging around waiting for the nuns to die so they could examine their brains…ick!