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You’re never too old to learn – and doing so might just improve your health
The platform explores research from The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas), in which older adults given the chance to learn new skills experienced ‘significant improvement’, like better memory. ‘The more active pastime of learning a new skill led to the more efficient brain activity you might observe in a younger brain,’ BBC Future says. Benefits ‘[lingered] for more than a year after the participants had completed their course’.