{"id":211939,"date":"2025-04-20T18:20:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T23:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/technology-use-by-older-adults-linked-to-reduced-dementia-risk"},"modified":"2025-04-20T18:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T23:20:26","slug":"technology-use-by-older-adults-linked-to-reduced-dementia-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/technology-use-by-older-adults-linked-to-reduced-dementia-risk","title":{"rendered":"Technology use by older adults linked to reduced dementia risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/technology-use-by-older-adults-linked-to-reduced-dementia-risk2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the first generation that interacted with digital technology reaches an age where dementia risks emerge, scientists have asked the question: Is there a correlation between digital technology use and an increased risk of dementia? With the phrases \u201cbrain rot\u201d and \u201cbrain drain\u201d circulating on social media, it would appear that most people would assume the answer is yes.<\/p>\n<p>However, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-025-02159-9\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a> in <i>Nature Human Behavior<\/i> by neuroscientists at Baylor University and the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School reveals the opposite\u2014digital technologies are actually associated with reduced cognitive decline.<\/p>\n<p>The study, \u201cA meta-analysis of technology use and cognitive aging,\u201d was sparked by the ongoing concern about the passive activity of digital technologies and their relation to accelerating risks of dementia. Study co-authors are Jared F. Benge, Ph.D., clinical neuropsychologist and associate professor of neurology at Dell Medical School and UT Health Austin\u2019s Comprehensive Memory Center within the Mulva Clinic for the Neurosciences, and Michael K. Scullin, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Baylor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the first generation that interacted with digital technology reaches an age where dementia risks emerge, scientists have asked the question: Is there a correlation between digital technology use and an increased risk of dementia? With the phrases \u201cbrain rot\u201d and \u201cbrain drain\u201d circulating on social media, it would appear that most people would assume [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}