How Your Social Life Protects Your Brain and Memory | AMAC

Investigators from the Harvard School of Public Health used information gathered from more than 16,000 HRS subjects between 1998 and 2004. Because the study spans several years, the researchers could draw conclusions about the crucial issue of causation. They could ask, does being socially active protect against memory loss? Or is it the other way around—do people who suffer cognitive decline tend to socialize less than average?