Have an asymmetric face, don’t play memory games and get dementia

by Clifton Flack on September 6th, 2009

Excuse the pun, but on the face of it, you may feel that playing online memory games and other brain training games is sufficient to keep your mind young as you get older.

But if you’re a man with an asymmetric face, it might all be in vain. Men with regular features are likely to be in better mental shape at the end of their lives, research has shown.

Modern Psychologists in UK have discovered that men with greater degrees of facial symmetry are less prone to mental decline between the ages of 79 and 83.

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