Playing Chess Can Prevent Alzheimer's?

Playing chess is considered able to keep the brain to work all the time. Such as maintaining the ability to think and memory
Hidayatullah.com-An intellectual challenge done with meniliti benefits of playing chess. Champion Russian Grandmaster Anatoly Karpov played against Joel Lautier of France, to see whether chess can prevent Alzheimer's disease.
The scientists monitored the brain activity when players compete, to measure levels of stress, as well as emotional and psychological reactions. They believe that chess can provide the perfect antidote to Alzheimer's.
"It's not just a memory disorder, but there are other cognitive functions are disturbed, such as attention processes, or facts. Set the strategy in front of the task. And in chess. You have all these components," said Professor Robert Philippe, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis.
More than 35 million people suffer from Alzheimer's disease, especially in industrialized countries. This figure is also expected to double within the next 20 years.
"This type of serious game is a protective factor to have normal cognitive function, even the parents. If you have normal cognitive function, it means you are against AD, Alzheimer's disease," said Robert Philippe.
It is recognized Karpov. Players from Russia were considered the game of chess as mental training.
"If you train and keep the brain to work all the time, you retain the ability to think and memory," said Karpov.
Research shows that memory will begin to fade at the age of 20 years, but mental exercise is expected to help fight it.
As we know, Alzheimer's disease is one that makes the human brain work decreases, which arrive at a certain level will make someone lose the ability to think clearly to control what is going done. Alzheimer's disease is common in elderly people.
Alzheimer's is a degenerative disease characterized by memory loss, intellectual and kepribadian.Penyakit is common in the elderly and rarely in young or middle age.
Not that all those who are elderly will suffer from Alzheimer's disease. Besides age, other factors that cause Alzheimer's is genetic.