Boggle BrainBusters: Find the Mammals
How many words can you find?
Exercise your mind by searching for words nestled in the Boggle cube, the more letters the better – plus bonus words to up the ante! Find as many words as you can by linking letters up, down, side-to-side, and diagonally, writing words on a blank sheet of paper. You may only use each letter box once within a single word. Play the Boggle word-find puzzle with a friend and compare word signs, crossing out common words.
Bonus answers to Boggle Word-Find Puzzle below
Boggle Brain-Building Puzzle Answers
APE
MOLE
PUMA
MOOSE
KOALA
MOUSE
WHALE
HORSE
ALPACA
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More Brain-Building Insight from Boomer
Brain Research to Keep Memories Fresher Longer
In the spring of 2015, a University of Virginia postdoctoral fellow, Antione Louveau, was gazing through a microscope, taking what he thought would be an unrewarding glance at the distribution of immune cells in a mouse meninge – that is, the membrane surrounding the animal’s brain. But what he saw took his breath: The cells were arranged in a pattern suggesting a network of lymphatic vessels.
Yet, no such physiological structures were known to exist … “When I first saw this, it was hard to believe my eyes,” said Jonathan Kipnis, a UVA professor of neurology who oversaw the research and directs the school’s Center for Brain Immunology and Glia. Like most brain scientists, he “thought the [brain] was mapped; I did not believe there were structures we did not know about.”
The findings had major implications for brain science.
Read more at www.Boomermagazine.com/Brain-Research-May-Keep-Memories-Longer
‘Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age’
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A recent study asked Americans ages 60 and older what condition they were most afraid of getting. Alzheimer’s or dementia was the number one answer (35%), followed by cancer (23%) and stroke (15%). In Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age, neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta shares insights into how to stave off the dreaded dementia and keep your brain healthy.
Read more of our review at BoomerMagazine.com/Keep-Your-Brain-Healthy, with a link to Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age.
