Brain Exercises for the Weekend

27 Comments

1. Linda on January 12, 2008 at 10:33

   keep the brain work­ing is always a good thing!

   
   
   
2. Alvaro on January 15, 2008 at 8:49

   Lin­da: glad you liked them!

   
   
   
3. fadern on January 17, 2008 at 2:08

   thanks

   
   
   
4. Monty on January 24, 2008 at 7:01

   Agh­hh! Since so many of the ques­tions includ­ed “part 2“s, I thought the let­ters of my name bit was part one…I have 21 let­ters in my name, so I thought of 46 objects!

   
   
   
5. Ryan on February 7, 2008 at 7:37

   Just stum­bled accross this site. Sounds cool. Brain exer­cis­es, i like that. How many exer­cis­es can you come up with for the brain? I am very impressed with your abil­i­ty to cre­ate a site on such a nar­rowed down top­ic. Great site!

   
   
   
6. Alvaro on February 7, 2008 at 9:49

   Hel­lo Ryan, thank you for the kind words. There are many things going on in our field, and in fact we can’t always cov­er it all!

   
   
   
7. Noora on February 9, 2008 at 1:29

   these exer­cis­es are real­ly good …I real­ly like it.… thank you

   
   
   
8. Beatrice Dudziak on February 10, 2008 at 1:42

   I am so glad to have found this site, went look­ing after watch­ing pbs show, send­ing it down to my sis­ter in NOva Sco­tia, we will do this togeth­er as a challenge.

   
   
   
9. Alvaro on February 11, 2008 at 8:58

   Noo­ra and Beat­rice: glad to hear you are enjoy­ing them! will let Har­ri­et know how pop­u­lar her exer­cis­es are becoming.

   
   
   
10. Don Fallick on February 17, 2008 at 1:10

    So glad to dis­cov­er this site. My mater­nal Grand­fa­ther died of Alzheimer’s, and my father of mul­ti­ple small strokes, so I have demen­tia on both sides of my fam­i­ly. Now that I’m in my six­ties, I’m so glad to learn that hered­i­ty does­n’t con­trol, and that there are FUN exer­cis­es I can do to help. Thanks! You’ve giv­en me hope.

    
    
    
11. Alvaro on February 17, 2008 at 10:05

    Don: yes, genes only pre­dis­pose, don’t determine.

    Most impor­tant of all: stress itself can be of worst ene­my, so please, do your best to main­tain a healthy lifestyle and any­thing you can do to low­er the prob­a­bil­i­ty of devel­op­ing prob­lems, but don’t say or write or think again some­thing like “I have demen­tia on both sides of my fam­i­ly”. It does­n’t help anyone.

    Enjoy the Exercises!

    
    
    
12. daniel stern on February 22, 2008 at 2:40

    I have been look­ing for this site for a long time… I love this stuff and have been study­ing it at an ama­teur lev­el for some time.

    Thanks!

    
    
    
13. Alvaro on February 23, 2008 at 10:44

    Daniel: thank you for your nice com­ment! glad that you found us, and welcome!

    
    
    
14. marion on March 1, 2008 at 6:01

    I found your web­site after the PBS spe­cial and loved it. This is excit­ing, and I shared it with a girl­friend. We are both active 63 y/o’s and love to keep out­selves active. I enjoy the mind teasers and will do them dai­ly. thanks again, marion

    
    
    
15. Alvaro on March 1, 2008 at 9:44

    Wel­come, Marion!

    
    
    
16. Marilyn on March 21, 2008 at 9:54

    I am a well edu­cat­ed, high­ly intel­lec­tu­al per­son who suf­fered a trau­mat­ic brain injury six months ago, and that is with­out doubt the worst thing and most life chal­leng­ing event ever. My rehab plugged me into look­ing for “brain exer­cis­es” like what you offer but I am not able to work yet so the bet­ter the deal, like “free”, the more like­ly I am to get involved

    
    
    
17. Lynn on March 22, 2008 at 10:56

    Sor­ry to hear about your TBI. Work­ing on these games actu­al­ly can encour­age new con­nex and celles in the brain. And there are a lot of “free­bies” out there.
    Check out:
    braingle.com
    gamesforthebrain.com

    There are oth­ers, too. Alvaro may have oth­er ideas. Free is good. Best wish­es to you from anoth­er Mar­i­lyn who goes by Lynn.

    
    
    
18. Brenda Kane on March 22, 2008 at 6:32

    Hi, this is great. I am so thrilled that there are big break­throughs in “Brain Sci­ence” I’ve con­duct­ed many non sci­en­tif­ic brain tests on myself and can tell you that, each time I do a test right after stren­u­ous phys­i­cal exer­cise, I score very well…astounding myself! Fun to test your­self and watch your brain respond…it real­ly does!…and quick­er than you might sus­pect! So thanks for the fun teasers!

    
    
    
19. Alvaro on March 23, 2008 at 1:43

    Hel­lo Mar­i­lyn, the key is to ensure a con­stant flow of nov­el­ty, vari­ety and chal­lenge, either by learn­ing new skills, attempt­ing new activ­i­ties, play­ing some games, or doing some more struc­tured pro­grams (which are not usu­al­ly free). Some good web­sites to try (they offer free tri­als, so you can test them), are

    lumosity.com

    happy-neuron.com

    Lynn: thanks for your suggestions.

    Bren­da: that makes a lot of sense. Phys­i­cal exer­cise is a very impor­tant part of the brain health equation.

    
    
    
20. Wayne on April 1, 2008 at 8:42

    I grad­u­at­ed with a 3.87 GPA in a BS pro­gram but these exer­cis­es make my head feel like it is going to explode! I guess I haven’t used my brain much since col­lege — many years ago. It is near­ly mid­night — maybe I will do bet­ter after sleep­ing. This is a great site. Thank you!

    
    
    
21. Alvaro on April 6, 2008 at 7:34

    wel­come on board Wayne…practice matters :-)

    
    
    
22. jacy on October 22, 2008 at 6:48

    i had a brain injury from a bad car acci­dent. and while i grad­u­at­ed phi beta kap­pa with a 3.8 gpa, my brain still isn’t back to what it used to be. but this web­site is help­ing a lot. and it’s com­plete­ly addict­ing so thanks a lot.

    
    
    
23. mauricio aldana on November 7, 2008 at 9:58

    Hel­lo Alvaro. I sort of bumped into this page while I was try­ing to deep­en my under­stand­ing of neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty. I admire your com­mit­ment and pas­sion. I will use some of the exer­cis­es you sug­gest with my stu­dents and me.

    Keep it up!!

    
    
    
24. Bill George on December 23, 2008 at 7:40

    Excel­lent, this web­site is just as fun and men­tal­ly stim­u­lat­ing as a good game of chess! GREAT WORK GUYS!!

    
    
    
25. April on January 31, 2009 at 3:10

    I am real­ly glad I have found this site. I felt I need­ed to real­ly chal­lenge my brain, see how things are work­ing up there nowa­days and I tell you, this has def­i­nite­ly opened my eyes to new under­stand­ings. As a Psych major, I find this very stim­u­lat­ing, not just as anoth­er chal­lenge or brain teas­er, but becom­ing aware of how my brain inter­prets dif­fer­ent concepts