A new study has found that people who use the internet in middle age are more than half as likely to develop dementia later in life.
According to the study, people who use the internet on smartphones rather than computers have more pronounced positive effects.
Scientists believe that the abundance of information available on the internet benefits people’s brains, while using social media can help fight loneliness, which is now being called a major cause of this disease.
An active social life and activities that keep mental matters active (such as playing puzzles or crosswords) can help with this condition.
And now researchers from Zhejiang University School of Medicine in China have added the internet to this list after investigating more than 12,000 dementia-free people.
