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

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.

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

_____ 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…

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

_________________________________________________________________ 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.

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

——- 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

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