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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 One of the take-away messages is that new learning is "very possible" in later life, he added.
"What would happen if we could incorporate this into people's lives more generally, so they could do it like physical exercise for longer periods of time?" Marsiske asked.
The interventions used in this study are already being developed so that they can be made more widely accessible, with the speed-of-processing intervention under development by a private company.
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Last updated 12/19/2006
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SOURCES: Michael Marsiske, Ph.D., associate professor and associate chair, department of clinical and health psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville; Gary J. Kennedy, M.D., director, geriatric psychiatry, Montefiore Medical Center, New York City; Dec. 20, 2006, Journal of the American Medical Association
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