Posts Tagged ‘CDC’
News: DriveSharp, Cognitive Health, Posit Science and CogniFit
Round-up of recent news on cognitive health and brain fitness: 1) Impressive coup by Posit Science: Walter Mossberg reviews DriveSharp: A Review of DriveSharp (Wall Street Journal) — “My verdict is that it was easy to use, and it did indeed work on my ability to rapidly recall the color and position of multiple moving…
Read MoreBrain Resources and Websites
We recently prepared a Directory of Web Sites as part of our Resources section. You will find some gems here, in a variety of areas: » The Dana Foundation offers several excellent online resources: — Brainy Kids Online offers children, teens, parents and teachers links to games, labs, education resources and lesson plans. — BrainWeb: general information…
Read MoreBrain Fitness Newsletter: Brain Awareness Week is March 10–16th
Here you are have the bi-monthly Digest of our 10 most Popular blog posts. (Also, remember that you can subscribe to receive our blog RSS feed, or to our newsletter at the top of this page if you want to receive this digest by email). First, an announcement: March 10–16th is Brain Awareness Week, an international…
Read MoreCognitive Health Roadmap by the CDC and Alzheimer’s Association
Hello, this is Andreas again, the MD/ PhD student in cognitive neuroscience and new summer intern here. Cognitive/ brain health is finally getting more attention by Public officials. On June 10th the National Public Health Road Map to Maintaining Cognitive Health was released by the CDC and the Alzheimer’s Association. The authors propose a set…
Read MoreExercising Your Lexical Recall and Pattern Recognition
I was sent links to a free online crossword puzzle game and sudoko. While we often talk about the excellent computer-based brain fitness programs available, puzzles can still be good mental exercise … they are just not a complete workout for your whole brain. Word games like crossword puzzles and SCRABBLE® exercise your lexical recall (memory for words that name things), attention, memory, and pattern recognition. They can help maintain your vocabulary and avoid the frustrating tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon that all of us experience from time to time. Sudoko is not a mathematics game in that you don’t actually manipulate the numbers as mathematical entities, but it is a pattern recognition game using symbols (numbers). A very legitimate reason to play casual games is that games can be social and fun — which is good for reducing stress.The drawbacks to puzzles and games is that they are hard to calibrate to ensure increasing challenge, and they generally only exercise a limited number of brain functions.
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