Do You Have Digital Brain Drain?

Watched an interesting news story about how using digital devices all day has changed the type of things we store in our brains.

There’s research in the Alzheimer’s field that suggests you probably should work on knowing a few people’s phone numbers…and think a bit before you snap to Google for an answer to everything.

As mentioned in the CTV story, a report that was done in the UK, “The Rise and Impact of Digital Amnesia,” found people that use digital devices — the majority can’t recall key phone numbers including:

• Those of their children (71 per cent)
• Their children’s schools (87 per cent)
• Their place of work (57 per cent)
• Their partner (49 per cent)

What phone numbers do you know off the top of your head?

Some suggestions to minimize “Digital Brain”:

1. Use Your Head. Retrieve information from your brain organically – rather than automatically turning to Google to look up that actress you can’t remember immediately. Sit there and concentrate until you can recall it.

2. Crack Open a Book. That’s right. Reading an actual book rather than a tablet has been shown to improve memory retention.

3. Learn a new language. Putting you outside your comfort zone helps your brain work harder, which makes you smarter.

4. Play a new instrument. Instruments require the use of both side of the brain – like the piano or the guitar, for example, which help strengthen and balance it.

5. Get physical. Physical exercise increases blood flow and accelerates the transport of vital nutrients to your brain

From: www.Alzheimers.net

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