Take up regular aerobic exercise to slow down the advance of dementia and other signs of cognitive decline a study suggests. Such exercise seems to boost the size of the area of the brain (hippocampus) involved in verbal memory and learning among women whose intellectual capacity has been affected by age. For the study the researchers tested the impact of different types of exercise on the hippocampal volume of 86 women who said they had mild memory problems known as mild cognitive impairment - and a common risk factor for dementia. All the women were aged between 70 and 80
