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Crossword for All Ages Aireni Sanz

Doing crossword puzzles has many benefits for mental health, -They help keep the connections between neurons active, contributing to brain plasticity.-They help prevent cognitive decline and degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's, which appear over the years.-They are a very complete mental exercise. They reinforce the development of the general knowledge area of culture and the world in general.-They stimulate long-term memory. Solving crosswords is a great training to evoke and remember names, dates, facts, data, symbols.-They improve verbal skills: they stimulate reading comprehension, spelling and expand vocabulary (especially of synonyms and antonyms).-They stimulate the ability to solve problems. You must create strategies to solve it, for example, you may choose to solve first the ones that are easier for you or you can choose to solve the crossword by advancing by sectors.-They help the learning of patterns: understanding how things connect to each other and are the basis of something more concrete.-They stimulate logical thinking and the capacity for deduction: when we have a word in which we have already discovered some letters (from the words that intersect it) we can deduce what word it is.-They stimulate the development of attention and voluntary concentration.-They help you relax and relieve stress.-They reinforce self-esteem: completing a crossword gives a great feeling of well-being and self-confidence in one's own abilities.