American Study: Reading Protects Your Brain From Madness

Reading and writing protect brain health as people who cannot do so have almost three times the risk of going mad, according to a Jennifer Manly study, from the University” Columbia Vagelos College”, published in the magazine” Neurology”.

The study included about 10,000 individuals aged 77, including 237 illiterates.

At the beginning of the study, 35% of illiterates proved to have signs of madness to 18% of those who could read and write.

After about four years, the number of illiterates with madness rose to 48% to 27% of those who could read and write.

Experts have estimated that illiterates have a risk almost three times more to be mad than others, with equal conditions such as age, sex, socio-economic status and cardiovascular health.

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Our”Our work provides new evidence that reading and writing may be important factors in maintaining brain health”, it concluded.