Nintendo Brain Training and Schools

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 25, 2008 |

An inter­est­ing recent arti­cle announce­sPupils to start day with Nin­ten­do Brain Train­ing(UK’s Dai­ly Tele­graph). Some quotes:  — “Chil­dren at 16 pri­ma­ry schools are to start each day by play­ing on a Nin­ten­do games con­sole, it was dis­closed yes­ter­day.” — “The pupils will play “brain train­ing” exer­cis­es before lessons after a pilot scheme at a school…

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Alzheimer’s Disease: too serious to play with headlines

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 21, 2007 |

We just came across an arti­cle titled Best Com­put­er Brain Games for Senior Cit­i­zens to Delay Alzheimer’s Dis­ease. The head­line makes lit­tle sci­en­tif­ic sense-and we observe this con­fu­sion often. The arti­cle men­tions a few pro­grams we have dis­cussed often in this blog, such as Posit Sci­ence and Mind­Fit, and oth­ers we haven’t because we haven’t…

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