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The ultimate in transfer from brain training to real-world outcomes: Reducing the risk of at-fault accidents by almost 50%

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Can you train your brain to dri­ve longer into your gold­en years? (CTV News):

“For the elder­ly, the loss of a driver’s licence could mean the end of inde­pen­dence and the begin­ning of a decline in health, with far-reach­ing con­se­quences in their dai­ly lives…New assis­tive dri­ving tech­nolo­gies seem like an obvi­ous solu­tion in the years to come, but buy­ing new vehi­cles can be too expen­sive; while options like going for adult dri­ving lessons can be too great a blow to some seniors’ pride. Now, sci­en­tists claim that there’s anoth­er option avail­able to help old­er dri­vers main­tain their abil­i­ties on the road. [Read more…] about The ulti­mate in trans­fer from brain train­ing to real-world out­comes: Reduc­ing the risk of at-fault acci­dents by almost 50%

Neuroplasticity and “real” Brain Games: The opportunity at hand

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-- An MRI image of the brain showing the structure of white matter. Credit 3D Slicer/Wikimedia Commons.
– An MRI image of the brain show­ing the struc­ture of white mat­ter. Cred­it 3D Slicer/Wikimedia Commons.

In prepa­ra­tion for the new sea­son of Nation­al Geo­graph­ic’s Brain Games, their pro­duc­ers asked me to par­tic­i­pate in a vir­tu­al round­table around this thought-pro­vok­ing question:

Do you think indi­vid­u­als can train their brain to respond in a par­tic­u­lar way to cer­tain sit­u­a­tions, or do you think our brain’s innate “star­tle response” is too hard­wired to alter?

My short answer: Yes, we can train our brains.

My long answer: Not only we can, but we SHOULD train our brains to respond in par­tic­u­lar ways to cer­tain sit­u­a­tions. That’s why we have a human brain to begin with…Keep read­ing arti­cle The Real Brain Game: Har­ness­ing Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty to Upgrade Our Men­tal Equip­ment (The Cre­ativ­i­ty Post)

Virtual “Brain Games” roundtable: Why we can, and SHOULD, train our brains

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brainGames_new seasonIn prepa­ra­tion for the new sea­son of Nation­al Geo­graph­ic’s Brain Games, start­ing this Sun­day Feb­ru­ary 14th, their pro­duc­ers asked us to par­tic­i­pate in a vir­tu­al round­table around this thought-pro­vok­ing question:

Do you think indi­vid­u­als can train their brain to respond in a par­tic­u­lar way to cer­tain sit­u­a­tions, or do you think our brain’s innate “star­tle response” is too hard­wired to alter?

Short answer: [Read more…] about Vir­tu­al “Brain Games” round­table: Why we can, and SHOULD, train our brains

Lumos Labs (maker of Lumosity) pays $2 million to settle FTC deceptive advertising charges

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Exterior of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in Washington, D.C.

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Lumos­i­ty must pay $2 mil­lion after “unfound­ed” brain game claims (Fast Company):

“The mak­er of brain game app Lumos­i­ty has agreed to pay $2 mil­lion to set­tle charges brought by the Fed­er­al Trade Com­mis­sion, which alleged it deceived con­sumers about the product’s brain-train­ing benefits.

The FTC said Tues­day that Lumos­i­ty made “unfound­ed claims” that its games could help users do bet­ter at work and school and help reduce the effects of con­di­tions includ­ing [Read more…] about Lumos Labs (mak­er of Lumos­i­ty) pays $2 mil­lion to set­tle FTC decep­tive adver­tis­ing charges

Study: Brain training game can improve prospective memory and activities of daily living

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virtualweekb‘Vir­tu­al Week’ brain game has poten­tial to help old­er adults remain inde­pen­dent longer (press release):

“An inter­na­tion­al team of sci­en­tists has demon­strat­ed that just one month of train­ing on a “Vir­tu­al Week” com­put­er brain game helps old­er adults sig­nif­i­cant­ly strength­en prospec­tive mem­o­ry — a type of mem­o­ry that is cru­cial for plan­ning, every­day func­tion­ing and inde­pen­dent liv­ing [Read more…] about Study: Brain train­ing game can improve prospec­tive mem­o­ry and activ­i­ties of dai­ly living

December Update: Wishing You and Yours a Very Brain-Fit Decade

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How can we help younger gen­er­a­tions find the right path to life­long brain health and per­for­mance — espe­cial­ly as they will live longer, and in more dynam­ic, com­plex envi­ron­ments? We cre­at­ed the Brain Health across the Lifes­pan series to curate reli­able sources of infor­ma­tion, and here you can  check out  the Top 10 Resources to Bet­ter Under­stand the Teenage Brain.

Wish­ing you and your fam­i­ly a very brain-fit decade…please enjoy the Decem­ber edi­tion of our month­ly eNewslet­ter: [Read more…] about Decem­ber Update: Wish­ing You and Yours a Very Brain-Fit Decade