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Use it or lose it: how to sharpen your brain as you age – podcast
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Presented by Ian Sample, produced by Ilan Goodman, sound design by Tony Onuchukwu, the executive producer is Ellie Bury
Thu 13 Mar 2025 06.00 CET
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Many of us believe that cognitive decline is an inevitable part of ageing, but a new study looking at how our skills change with age challenges that idea. Ian Sample talks to Ludger Woessmann, a professor of economics at the university of Munich and one of the study’s authors, to find out how the team delved into the data to come to their conclusions, and what they discovered about how we can all maintain our faculties for as long as possible.
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