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Boost your brain healthy by managing your own finances, study says

Businesswoman managing finance and investment online, reading financial trading data and making financial plan with smartphone. (Credit: Getty Images)

Memorizing multiplication tables in grade school may have been worth it after all—and it might even help make you better at managing money.

That’s according to a new study from researchers at Binghamton University and the University of Alabama, who used advanced imaging technology to measure peoples’ brain structure and functional connectivity when they complete financial tasks, like balancing a checkbook or making change.

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