Brain Failure and Brain Fitness: A Farewell to Dementia?

A dread­ed diag­no­sis, that dimmed and doom­ing dilem­ma. Feared, some­times fought, too often for­got­ten. It is the grayest, ghastli­est ele­phant in the room: demen­tia. What is demen­tia? I, like many oth­ers who ded­i­cate their pro­fes­sion­al efforts to its study and treat­ment, have no good answer. I believe we are lost in our lex­i­con, try­ing to…

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Cognitive Health News Round-Up

Round-up of inter­est­ing recent news on cog­ni­tive health and fit­ness: the field is in motion. 1) Bay­crest cre­ates Cen­tre for Brain Fit­ness with $10-mil­lion Invest­ment from Ontario Gov­ern­ment (Cana­da NewsWire) 2) Cog­ni­tive tests are the best way to select med­ical stu­dents (EurekAlert) 3) High blood pres­sure hard on the aging brain (Reuters) 4) Alzheimer’s tests ben­e­fi­cial for seniors (Atlanta-Jour­­nal…

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Brain Health and Alzheimer’s Prevention

We just received these two very thought-pro­­vok­ing essays on Alzheimer’s Dis­ease and brain health, as part of a writ­ing work­shop, led by Susan Hill in Lake­land, Flori­da, with a group of grade 9–11 home­school­ers. With­out fur­ther ado, here you are both Essays: Essay A. Pre­vent­ing Alzheimer’s at Work – By Josh H 5,000,000: that is the number…

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Brain Training and Brain fitness games

Fun quick arti­cle, titled Review: Lat­est Brain-Teas­ing Video Games, on Brain Train­ing, “Nin­ten­do Brain Age”, “Big Brain Acad­e­my”, “Hot Brain”, “Brain Boost”, “Brain Genius”, “Brain Juice”, “Brain Chal­lenge”, “Mind Quiz”… Please remem­ber to use our check­lists on How to Select the Right Brain Fit­ness Pro­­gram-short check­list or the full length ver­sion‑, if you are look­ing for…

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