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Rachel Champau Summary

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Rachel Champeau explores a study that explores the effect technology on brain function among middle aged and older adults. The study suggested that adults that use the internet are demonstrating increased brain stimulation and function. A series of tests were conducted on a group of adults that had internet experience and some that did not to see if brain function was affected. The internet savvy adults showed improved function in both decision-making and complex reasoning and this increase was twofold what the non-internet using adults experienced. This study shows that there is the promise of technology to help increase brain function and stimulation of our aging population and that further research is

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