Nintendo Brain Training, bestseller in Europe

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 16, 2008

From a recent arti­cle: Brain Train­ing dom­i­nates ’08 Euro sales (CVG Online) — “Over­all, four of the ten best­selling DS games in both coun­tries dur­ing the first six months of 2008 were in the brain train­ing genre.” — “Accord­ing to data released by sales mon­i­tor Media Con­trol GfK Inter­na­tion­al, the DS’s heavy­weight sta­tus in the European…

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Brain Fitness for Baby Boomers

By Alvaro Fernandez | June 18, 2008 |

One of the best arti­cles so far on the grow­ing brain fit­ness mar­ket, by the Asso­ci­at­ed Press. Click Here to check out sto­ry: “This is not just a Nin­ten­­do-fueled fad,” he says. “The brain fit­ness mar­ket passed a tip­ping point in 2007 thanks to the con­ver­gence of a very proac­tive boomer gen­er­a­tion hit­ting their 60s.” Arti­cle: Here. Highly…

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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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Brain Fitness Software and Training Games

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 16, 2007 |

Unless you have been liv­ing in a cave, you have read by now mul­ti­ple arti­cles about the brain train­ing and brain exer­cise craze: sudoku, Nin­ten­do BrainAge, mul­ti­ple online games, soft­ware like Mind­Fit and Posit Sci­ence… If you are look­ing for some fun men­tal stim­u­la­tion now, here you have our selec­tion of Brain Teasers. Now, how…

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Brain Fitness Programs, “Brain Gyms”…Explained

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 17, 2006 |

Thanks to Mind­Hacks for the link to a good Wash­ing­ton Post arti­cle, “Pump­ing Neu­rons”. A cou­ple of quotes: Recent research shows that the brain remains plas­tic, or basi­cal­ly train­able, through­out life. In a study pub­lished in the Jour­nal of the Amer­i­can Med­ical Asso­ci­a­tion in 2002, sig­nif­i­cant per­cent­ages of the 2,802 par­tic­i­pants age 65 and older…

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