Posts Tagged ‘Casual-Games’
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…
Read MoreBrain Fitness and Exercise in Japan
Fun article in the Washington Post: Aging Japanese Keep Their Minds Moving “part of a broad range of mental acuity products that are all the rage in Japan: books, toys, food and other things, sold with the pledge that they can reenergize aging brains.” “Analysts said the current brain-training trend began in 2004 and 2005…
Read MoreBrain Workout for Your Frontal Lobes
Your frontal lobes are home to your executive functions, including pattern recognition. Here’s a puzzle to challenge your ability to uncover a pattern. In this puzzle, three numbers: 16, 14, and 38, need to be assigned to one of the rows of numbers below. To which row should each number be assigned — A, B,…
Read MoreTop 10 Brain Teasers and Games, with a neuroscience angle
No matter what we are reading or doing, there is always the need to take a little break and challenge our minds (and to learn a bit about how our brains work).… If you care for Brain Fitness Programs, check out MindFit for an overall mental workout, IntelliGym for basketball game-intelligence, RoboMemo for working memory training, Freeze-Framer for stress management and peak performance.
Read MoreNeuroplasticity and Lifelong Learning
What a month. We promised you with our blog title 7 months ago that we would be your “Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution”, but we couldn’t have predicted that CBS, Time Magazine, WSJ, NYT and other mainstream media would be such great allies in this neuroplasticity effort. Special Offer: For a limited time, you…
Read MoreIs it necessary to train under the supervision of a doctor or other specialist?
Science is being published that shows how brain exercise can lead to enhanced neuroplasticity (growth of new neurons and connections between them) throughout life.Answer:Although some knowledge about the brain has been around since the days of Ancient Greece and Rome, it really got a boost in the 19th century with some major discoveries in brain localization.… Yet, due to technical and economic constraints, many of the tools to understand cognition stayed within university, medical, and military research labs where they were inaccessible to most people.With recent scientific developments, it has become much easier and cheaper to learn more.
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