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Fun brain teaser to test your cognitive skills during International Brain Teaser Month

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Mem­o­ry relies most­ly on the tem­po­ral lobes (see green area) and also the frontal lobes (red), Temporal lobe Frontal Lobeso those are the areas that will get some good neu­ronal acti­va­tion when read­ers raised in the US try to remem­ber the miss­ing words in the Amer­i­can proverbs below.

Now, if you were raised out­side the US and are not famil­iar with those proverbs you will have to use your rea­son­ing skills more than your mem­o­ry skills — In that case, frontal lobe acti­va­tion will be wider and more intense.

Con­verse­ly, if you were raised in the US you will find the inter­na­tion­al proverbs below to be more chal­leng­ing. You will not be able to remem­ber them, as you prob­a­bly nev­er learned them, but you should be able to fig­ure them out for extra frontal lobe, cog­ni­tive exercise.

Here’s the task: Guess the miss­ing words of each US and inter­na­tion­al proverb below. Get a pen and piece of paper and write your answers before you check the solutions 🙂

Ready, Set, Go! [Read more…] about Fun brain teas­er to test your cog­ni­tive skills dur­ing Inter­na­tion­al Brain Teas­er Month

Given cognitive strengths and needs are diverse, what brain training may work best for each person and under which conditions?

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Does ‘Brain Train­ing’ Actu­al­ly Work? (Sci­en­tif­ic American):

If there were an app on your phone that could improve your mem­o­ry, would you try it? Who wouldn’t want a bet­ter mem­o­ry? After all, our rec­ol­lec­tions are frag­ile and can be impaired by dis­eases, injuries, men­tal health con­di­tions and, most acute­ly for all of us, aging. [Read more…] about Giv­en cog­ni­tive strengths and needs are diverse, what brain train­ing may work best for each per­son and under which conditions?

AARP, TINA.org and the National Consumers League join forces to challenge Prevagen memory improvement claims

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Cred­it: TINA.org

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Pre­vagen Mem­o­ry Study Falls Short (Truth in Advertising):

“In 2011, four years after launch­ing Pre­vagen, Wis­con­sin-based Quin­cy Bio­science embarked on a study to prove that the active ingre­di­ent in the sup­ple­ment — apoae­quorin — improves mem­o­ry. It did not yield the results Quin­cy was hop­ing for. In fact, the Madi­son Mem­o­ry Study failed to show a sta­tis­ti­cal­ly sig­nif­i­cant improve­ment in the treat­ment group over the place­bo group — sci­en­tist speak for Pre­vagen wasn’t any bet­ter than a place­bo at improv­ing mem­o­ry. [Read more…] about AARP, TINA.org and the Nation­al Con­sumers League join forces to chal­lenge Pre­vagen mem­o­ry improve­ment claims

Johns Hopkins study shows how brain training, if correctly targeted, can enhance cognitive and brain performance

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This train­ing exer­cise boosts brain pow­er, Johns Hop­kins researchers say (Johns Hop­kins release)

“One of the two brain-train­ing meth­ods most sci­en­tists use in research is sig­nif­i­cant­ly bet­ter in improv­ing mem­o­ry and atten­tion, Johns Hop­kins Uni­ver­si­ty researchers found. It also results in more sig­nif­i­cant changes in brain activ­i­ty. [Read more…] about Johns Hop­kins study shows how brain train­ing, if cor­rect­ly tar­get­ed, can enhance cog­ni­tive and brain performance

Study: To improve brain health you need BOTH aerobic and cognitive exercise

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– Neur­al net­works. Pho­to cred­it: Radu Jianu, Brown University

Men­tal, phys­i­cal exer­cis­es pro­duce dis­tinct brain ben­e­fits (Sci­ence Daily):

“Cog­ni­tive brain train­ing improves exec­u­tive func­tion where­as aer­o­bic activ­i­ty improves mem­o­ry, accord­ing to new Cen­ter for Brain­Health research at The Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas at Dal­las [Read more…] about Study: To improve brain health you need BOTH aer­o­bic and cog­ni­tive exercise

Busy schedules linked to better memory and cognition among middle-aged and older adults

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Being Super Busy May* Be Good For Your Brain (Smith­son­ian Magazine):

“There has­n’t been much sci­en­tif­ic research on busy­ness itself, although it’s some­thing that we talk about so often,” explains Sara Fes­ti­ni, a cog­ni­tive neu­ro­sci­en­tist at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas at Dal­las Cen­ter for Vital Longevi­ty, a co-author of the new research pub­lished this week [Read more…] about Busy sched­ules linked to bet­ter mem­o­ry and cog­ni­tion among mid­dle-aged and old­er adults