reporter: you don t have to get lost in the desert to get the brain benefits experts suggest changing your usual route, turning off the gps on routine trips, and getting lost on purpose for the challenge of finding your way. for kathy, who has a family history of dementia, her good old map and compass could be the key to keeping her brain sharp dr. john torrez, nbc news, cade creek, arizona good for her. we have a lot to cover in our second hour of chris jansing reports. let s get right to it. at this hour, surf, sand, and seaweed? we ll tell you about an enormous and frankly kind of scary looking blob that s threatening to ruin spring break on south florida beaches. school officials in los angeles scrambling to prevent a three-day strike, which would shut down school for hundreds of thousands of students. straight ahead, where those talks stand right now. the clock is ticking for tiktok the biden administration threatening a ban unless the owners give in to pres
bloody war in ukraine. is that what was behind this week s confrontation with the u.s. drone and what does it say by him asking billionaires to save the russia economy. and the roller coaster on wall street shows no signs of stopping the s&p 500 is actually up what it all means for finances of everyday americans. and donald trump and his allying ramping up on ron desantis. and vladimir putin is under exterior and growing pressure both at home and abroad. mired in a war that s gone on far loster and cost more money and lives than nearly anyone had predicted. today putin addressed business elite in person, the first time he s done that since the war started. he called on them to invest in russian society, to put patriotism above profit. the latest sign of how badly russia s economy is suffering. it comes on the same day they released the have i i don t. nbc has learn that the pilots was on to harass the drone before ultimately colliding with it, forcing it to crash in t
extremely convenient, but they take the thinking out of it they take the brain effort out of it. and it may be doing us a disservice in the long run reporter: losing navigational skills can lead to cognitive decline, even dementia, but reading a map stimulating the hippocampus. by turning off the gps and using a map instead to navigate through unfamiliar routes, we re training that part of the brain. and it s less likely to decline. reporter: people who participate in orr yen tiering suggest that by turning on gps and instead lying oon a map cou beneficial to your aging brain one of the first symptoms associated with alzheimer s disease is a loss of our ability to get from point a to point b this is why this may be a beneficial way to stave off cognitive decline because it taps right into that thing that they re losing first