Brain Health Exercises-Puzzles

Brain exercises increase your memory capacity, attention span, brain speed, people skills, intelligence and navigation. As you age, it’s important to keep your brain sharp. Puzzles are a great way to maintain and build your brain health.  

 

Research has shown that doing jigsaw puzzles recruits multiple cognitive abilities and is a protective factor for visuospatial cognitive aging. In other words, when putting together a jigsaw puzzle, you have to look at different pieces and figure out where they fit within the larger picture. This can be a great way to challenge and exercise your brain.

Types of puzzles are:

  1. Jigsaw Puzzles
  2. Crossword Puzzles
  3. Word Search
  4. Riddles
  5. Logic puzzles-Sudoku
  6. Math Puzzles


Also, use the link below to try these on-line puzzle exercises.

https://brightside.me/wonder-quizzes/try-solving-these-8-puzzles-to-prove-youre-thinking-outside-the-box-280660/

Author: Michelle D Walton – writer/contributor
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