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Study: Creativity Slows Brain Aging by Years
10/4/2025
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- A Nature Communications study (Oct 3, 2025) links sustained creative engagement to slower brain aging.
- Trinity College Dublin researchers helped analyze data from 1,240 participants across 10 countries.
- Sustained creativity links to younger brain ages, with expert tango dancers about seven years younger than their chronological age.
- Creativity affects the frontoparietal region, key for working memory and decision-making.
