WORKING that brain - by engaging in debate or number games - may protect you from the severe loss of mental ability associated with dementia.
Being young does not.
A study by a neurologist here is challenging the notion that dementia is an affliction that hits only those above 65: About half the patients being treated for dementia at the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) are under that age.
Read the full report in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
