Daytime napping may help to preserve brain health by slowing the rate at which a person's brain shrinks as they age, a new study has suggested.
Disclosure: Dr Rob Hicks has disclosed no relevant financial relationships
"Previous research has shown that napping has cognitive benefits, with people who have had a short nap performing better in cognitive tests in the hours afterwards than counterparts who did not nap," the authors of the study pointed out. To assess visual memory, participants were asked to correctly identify matches from six pairs of cards after they had memorised their positions. Reaction time was recorded as the mean time taken by participants to correctly identify matches in a 12-round game of the card game 'Snap'.
Dr Victoria Garfield, from the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL, and senior author said: "Our findings suggest that, for some people, short daytime naps may be a part of the puzzle that could help preserve the health of the brain as we get older."gg
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