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Auditory training program leads to improved memory.(Geriatric Psychiatry)

SAN FRANCISCO -- An auditory training program designed to improve brain plasticity bestowed the side benefit of improved memory in a randomized, controlled, double-blind trial in 468 adults older than 65 years with normal cognition.

The study is one of the first to show generalized benefits--beyond improvements in the skills trained directly--from an intervention aiming to improve cognition or memory, Elizabeth M. Zelinski, Ph.D., and her associates reported in a poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America.

They asked the 232 participants in the intervention group to spend an hour a day, 5 days a week for 10 weeks doing six ...

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