2026年5月14日 / 美国东部时间上午11:32 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
采取措施锻炼脑力，或许能帮助你在衰老过程中维持大脑健康。
“《CBS晨间新闻》”正与赞助商阿尔茨海默病协会合作推出三集系列节目《大脑健康：从认知到行动》，探讨人们可以养成的健脑习惯，这些习惯或有助于降低日后罹患痴呆症的风险。
“过去几年我们了解到，无论是营养、身体活动还是锻炼脑力，这些简单的行动都能对大脑健康产生影响，”阿尔茨海默病协会首席执行官兼主席乔安妮·派克说道。
脑力锻炼是该协会新推出的“6步挑战”的重点内容之一，该挑战提供有科学依据的生活方式改变指导，或有助于维持长期认知能力。
“将锻炼脑力作为其中一环，是刺激大脑、学习新事物的好方法，”派克说，“它能建立认知储备，这样当你衰老时，就有一笔大脑健康储备可以依靠。”
锻炼脑力的活动
派克解释道，最能锻炼思维的活动，是那些能让大脑接触到未曾体验过的事物的活动。她表示，国际象棋这类“策略游戏”或许比填字游戏或数独更有益，因为后者更多依赖“常规或机械性”记忆。
“我们需要做那些你必须学习新东西，或以新方式参与的事情，”派克补充道，“你可以通过多种方式来理解这一点。关键在于学习，且活动要新颖或新鲜。”
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除了像国际象棋这种玩家需要根据对手的走法做出应对的游戏外，派克还推荐了诸如学习新乐器、掌握一门语言，或是阅读之前从未接触过的主题书籍等选择。
她还强调了维持社交联系的重要性。
“科学研究表明，处于孤独状态的人出现认知衰退的风险要高出70%，”派克说道，这使其成为“大脑激活”的一个重要方面。
如需了解更多关于阿尔茨海默病协会的“重新思考你的大脑”倡议和“6步挑战”的信息，可登录网站rethinkyourbrain.org查询。用户可在此报名参与挑战，并选择通过短信或电子邮件接收每日行动步骤和指导。
Challenging your mind can help maintain brain health. Here are steps the Alzheimer’s Association recommends.
May 14, 2026 / 11:32 AM EDT / CBS News
Taking steps to challenge your mind may help you maintain brain health as you age.
“CBS Mornings” is partnering with our sponsor the Alzheimer’s Association for a three-part series, “Brain Health: From Awareness to Action,” to explore the brain-healthy habits people can establish that may help lower the risk of dementia later in life.
“What we’ve learned even in the past couple of years is that simple actions that you can take, whether nutrition, physical activity or challenging your mind, can impact your brain health,” said Alzheimer’s Association CEO and president Joanne Pike.
Mental exercises are one focus of the organization’s new “6-Step Challenge,” which offers guidance on science-backed lifestyle changes that may support long-term cognition.
“Challenging your mind as part of that is a great way of stimulating your brain and learning new things,” Pike said. “It builds a cognitive reserve, so that when you are aging, you have a bank of brain health to rely on.”
Activities to challenge the mind
The best activities to sharpen the mind are those that introduce it to something it hasn’t experienced before, Pike explained. She said “strategy games,” like chess, may be more helpful than crossword puzzles or Sudoku, which rely more on “routine or rote” memorization.
“We want to do things that you have to learn something new or engage in that in a new way,” said Pike, adding, “There are multiple ways that you can think about it. The key step is to learn and for it to be novel or new.”
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Along with a game like chess, in which players must respond to a competitor’s moves, Pike also recommended options like picking up a new musical instrument, learning a language, or reading about a previously unfamiliar topic.
She also stressed the importance of maintaining social connections.
“We know, based on science, that individuals who are isolated have a 70% greater risk of cognitive decline,” Pike said, making it an important aspect of “brain activation.”
More information about the Alzheimer’s Association’s “(re)think your brain” initiative and “6-Step Challenge” is available online at rethinkyourbrain.org. Users can sign up for the challenge there, and elect to receive daily action steps and guidance via text or email.
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