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Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer’s – how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brain (theconversation.com)
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Researchers believe the association between navigation-heavy work and lower Alzheimer’s risk centers on the hippocampus, a part of the brain that governs memory and spatial navigation. It’s one of the first brain regions that Alzheimer’s damages: Problems with spatial navigation and orientation are among the earliest signs of the disease, sometimes surfacing before obvious memory loss.

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[–] 16 points 4 weeks ago

Oof, my mental maps have always been bad; I memorize specific routes, but aside from those routes, I'd get lost in a heartbeat if I took a wrong turn

I hope mental maps when playing video games still count

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