AIMAN INAM

LONDON: We often come across people with newspapers in their hands and solving crossword puzzles all the time.

Well, this is believed to be the healthful hobby for your wits, claimed a nouvelle research.

Apart from shaping a sharp mind, academics found out that solving crosswords regularly may escalate brain function later in life.

Also, people, who engage in word puzzles, have been reported with better performance in cognitive chores, attention, reasoning and reminiscence.

So as to determine this, scholars from the University of Exeter and Kings College London in the UK have been through the records of over 17,000 healthy individuals aged 50 years and above.

All the participants have been canvassed apropos how often they tended to play word puzzles. Also, their major features of brain function have been evaluated via the online cognitive test systems.

As per their up shots, the more you engage with word puzzles, the better you will be pertaining the tasks evaluating attention, reasoning and memory.

In addition, they learnt that puzzle players have the same brain function comparable to ten years younger than their age regarding grammatical reasoning pace and short term memory accuracy.

Author Keith Wesnes elaborated saying that next; they are going to ascertain whether engaging in puzzles leads to improvement in brain function.