> “If we are paying attention to our environment, we are stimulating our hippocampus, and a bigger hippocampus seems to be protective against Alzheimer’s disease,” Bohbot told me in an email. “When we get lost, it activates the hippocampus, it gets us completely out of the habit mode. Getting lost is good!” Done safely, getting lost could be a good thing.
Is there a Betteridges headline law equivalent for Alzheimer's claims, something along the lines of if there's a claim of protection it's more likely than not to be spurious?
Bohbot's own research only hinted at some correlation between hippocampus gray matter volume and navigation strategy but put a reporter on the end of an email and the possibility that early stage dementia sufferers are unlikely to deploy cognition-dependent navigation strategies falls by the wayside.
Far better to take your GPS, completely avoid stressful and dangerous lost situations, and enjoy life.
Is there a Betteridges headline law equivalent for Alzheimer's claims, something along the lines of if there's a claim of protection it's more likely than not to be spurious?
Bohbot's own research only hinted at some correlation between hippocampus gray matter volume and navigation strategy but put a reporter on the end of an email and the possibility that early stage dementia sufferers are unlikely to deploy cognition-dependent navigation strategies falls by the wayside.
Far better to take your GPS, completely avoid stressful and dangerous lost situations, and enjoy life.