Business Week, November 19, 2007

The Power of Puzzles

Keep playing those Sudoku games - they're good for your brain. That's the word from two professors - one business, one psychiatry - at Emory University, who say recent neuroscience research can help executives stay as sharp at 60 as they were at 25. Among their nuggets: Keep pursuing novel experiences, such as travel; cultivate pattern recognition; and work hard at play, particularly with games and activities that involve risk.