Taxi drivers are steering neuroscience toward better understanding Alzheimer’s A new study shows taxi drivers die at lower rates from Alzheimer’s disease compared to people in other professions

Taxi drivers are steering neuroscience toward better understanding Alzheimer’s A new study shows taxi drivers die at lower rates from Alzheimer’s disease compared to people in other professions https://www.statnews.com/2024/12/16/alzheimers-disease-research-taxi-drivers-hippocampus-dementia-link/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--qIZ6QovX5xGjS3nAB4F41Zs_ZAbzNm-Tijjt689WQmOzIMB5J7vDIpKuyPFvZoyGXDJUjimlGk3r9PnhCMzDX-_F1Yg&_hsmi=338888776&utm_content=338888776&utm_source=hs_email Here’s an interesting factoid for you: Taxi drivers die from Alzheimer’s disease at lower rates than people in other professions. In a study published yesterday in The BMJ, researchers posit that the reason may be how the job requires drivers to constantly exercise the parts of the brain responsible for navigation. But it’s not just a factoid. Understanding the reasons behind the association could have implications for the rest of us as well. Read more from STAT’s Anil Oza on the study. You’ll come for the science and stay for the history of how taxi drivers have been teaching neuroscientists about the brain for over 20 years.