Birdwatching Rewires the Brain and Slows Cognitive Decline

A famous poet once wrote that hope is a thing with feathers. Well, new research may suggest that healthy aging is too. Specifically, the research examined how expertise required for identifying birds aided in maintaining neuroplasticity, a key component to cognitive function that is known to decline with age. Yet even when the “bird-identification expert”—what […]

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