BBC brain training study apparently retracts previous overgeneralized claim that “brain training doesn’t work”

By SharpBrains | November 5, 2015

Online brain train­ing ‘helps old­er adults with every­day tasks’ (BBC): “Near­ly 7,000 peo­ple aged 50 and over signed up for the six-month exper­i­ment, launched by BBC TV’s Bang Goes The Theory…Some of the vol­un­teers were encour­aged to play online brain train­ing games for 10 min­utes at a time, as often as they wished. The others —…

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Open question: How to personalize brain training based on age, personality, biology, and more?

By SharpBrains | December 12, 2014

— Brain Train­ing Goes to School (Web­MD): “Kristy Lea was search­ing for a way to help her 5‑year-old son improve his ADHD, and she want­ed to reserve med­ica­tion as a last resort…Increasingly, ther­a­pists, school sys­tems, and par­ents are turn­ing to brain-train­ing games to help chil­dren with learn­ing chal­lenges. “If you look at the [sci­en­tif­ic research],…

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To treat depression, we will likely combine neuroplasticity-based brain training games with antidepressants

By SharpBrains | August 13, 2014

Com­put­er Games Bet­ter Than Med­ica­tion in Treat­ing Elder­ly Depres­sion (Live Sci­ence): “Com­put­er games could help in treat­ing old­er peo­ple with depres­sion who haven’t been helped by anti­de­pres­sant drugs or oth­er treat­ments for the disorder…In a study of 11 old­er patients, researchers found play­ing cer­tain com­put­er games was just as effec­tive at reduc­ing symp­toms of depres­sion as 

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Update: How to hold off Alzheimer’s Disease 8+ Years (even APOE4 carriers)

By SharpBrains | June 27, 2014

___ Time for Sharp­Brains’ June 2014 e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing a wealth of insights, sci­ence reports, upcom­ing events, and fun brain teasers. First of all, let us high­light what may well become the research find­ing of the year. As you can read in Men­tal stim­u­la­tion over genet­ics: How to hold off Alzheimer’s Dis­ease 8+ Years, “For APOE4 car­ri­ers with…

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