Work that requires constant mental stress and forces a person to make responsible decisions and to calculate their possible results positively influences the state of the brain, slowing down the development of negative age-related changes in his cells. This was reported by scientists from the Goethe University (Frankfurt, Germany).

In their studies, 195 people aged 55 to 99 years with age-related dementia, as well as 229 healthy volunteers from the same age group. With their help, scientists analyzed the impact on the state of the brain of various social factors, including the nature of human activities, as reported by the Internet publication for girls and women from 14 to 35 years Pannochka. Net The results obtained showed that people engaged in predominantly mental work, especially leadership work, requiring constant decision-making and causing responsibility for the actions of subordinates, age-related changes in the brain develop somewhat slower than usual. In addition, they are less likely to develop neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease. And for people engaged in manual labor or camerawork, which requires standard repetitive actions, the brain ages much faster.

At the moment, scientists do not have information about the possible mechanisms of this phenomenon. The most probable are two hypotheses. The first is based on the fact that physical labor is more often accompanied by all kinds of traumas that accelerate the development of age-related changes in the brain (traumas and stresses associated with them "burn" the nervous tissue, increasing its "physiological wear"),. The second suggests that in fact, not work affects the state of the brain, and features of the state of the brain, although not identified by conventional methods, affect the choice of profession. A person may not notice changes in his or her intellectual abilities, but they can prevent him from taking a high position or finding a responsible job and only then manifest in full force.

"We can draw several important conclusions from the results obtained by us," Dr.

Andreas Seider, the head of the study, told Reuters in an interview.. - First of all, we have proved that working conditions somehow affect the state of the nervous system. This means that with the help of a competent choice of work, it is possible to prevent the transition of almost imperceptible changes in the state of the brain to a severe neurodegenerative disease, that is, to save a person from an incurable disease. And to neglect this possibility it is impossible. »Medicus. En.

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