Driving a Stick Shift Is Good for Your Brain, According to Nintendo’s Brain Training Professor

If you don’t have one, there are other ways to get the benefit.

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Can driving a car benefit your brain? Yes, if it has a manual transmission. That’s the surprising result of research at Japan’s Tohoku University’s Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer. Researchers examined subjects’ brain activity while driving automatic and manual transmission cars. They found that driving a stick shift gave subjects’ brains a useful workout in a way that driving an automatic did not.

Ryuta Kawashima, MD professor in the........

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