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Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer’s – how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brain
- A 2024 study of nearly 9 million U.S. death certificates found taxi and ambulance drivers were less likely than workers in almost any other job to die of Alzheimer’s disease.
- Researchers concluded that continuous, real-time navigation—not driving itself—was linked to the lower Alzheimer’s disease risk.
- The hippocampus can build maps from viewpoints outside a navigator’s own position.
- Researchers found London taxi drivers had more gray matter in the posterior hippocampus.
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Leaning Left3Leaning Right4Center5Last UpdatedBias Distribution42% Center
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- 42% of the sources are Center
42% Center
L 25%
C 42%
R 33%
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