Motivational Monday: Reading As Preventative Brain Medicine

"Fiction is a challenge to your working memory," says neurologist and neuropsychologist Richard Restaks. Fiction reading requires following a plot and keeping track of characters. When he asks new patients, "Are you much of a reader?" and they respond with "I used to read lots of fiction but not anymore" he says "that's a red flag for potential cognitive decline."

-- Leslie Goldman, "Six Memory Boosters," AARP The Magazine, Dec 2024-Jan 2025