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Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer’s – how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brain
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cm0002 literature.cafe cm0002@literature.cafe
Joined: 2025-11-08
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Researchers believe the association between navigation-heavy work and lower Alzheimer’s risk centers on the hippocampus, a part of the brain that governs memory and spatial navigation. It’s one of the first brain regions that Alzheimer’s damages: Problems with spatial navigation and orientation are among the earliest signs of the disease, sometimes surfacing before obvious memory loss.

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Dr. Bob lemmy.ca DrBob@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-07-05
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Please stop posting this. It is a very overbroad claim based on minimal evidence. The risk reduction is not statistically significant even if we accept all of the limitations with case definitions.

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stoy lemmy.zip stoy@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2023-10-17
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Ok, so in a few decades we will see a weird spike of Alzheimer's in the western world, a spike that is COMPLETELY UNRELATED to AI chat bots

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Kalothar lemmy.ca Kalothar@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-07-20
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I knew all the video game maps I could fit into this bad boy would pay off

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newton feddit.online newton@feddit.online
Joined: 2026-04-12
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Please stop posting this. It is a very overbroad claim based on minimal evidence. The risk reduction is not statistically significant even if we accept all of the limitations with case definitions.

OP = cm0002 = check his 32 other accounts

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Grass sh.itjust.works Grass@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-09-30
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you can die from Alzheimer's?

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acockworkorange mander.xyz acockworkorange@mander.xyz
Joined: 2023-06-09
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you can die from Alzheimer's?

I don't know how it happens, but it's something I've heard a few times.

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