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Study: Actual, sustained practice–not mere knowledge–is needed to harness neuroplasticity and improve cognition over time

September 14, 2020 by SharpBrains

Lifestyle improve­ments may lessen cog­ni­tive decline (Wiley):

” … 19 indi­vid­u­als old­er than 65 years of age who were expe­ri­enc­ing cog­ni­tive decline were ran­dom­ized to a con­trol group or an inter­ven­tion group for 8 weeks. The con­trol group received online infor­ma­tion relat­ed to demen­tia and lifestyle risk fac­tors, Mediter­ranean diet, phys­i­cal activ­i­ty, and cog­ni­tive engage­ment. Par­tic­i­pants were instruct­ed to imple­ment this infor­ma­tion into their own lifestyles. The inter­ven­tion group received the same online infor­ma­tion, plus active com­po­nents to assist with imple­ment­ing this infor­ma­tion into their lifestyles: dietit­ian ses­sions, an exer­cise phys­i­ol­o­gist ses­sion, and online brain train­ing. [Read more…] about Study: Actu­al, sus­tained practice–not mere knowledge–is need­ed to har­ness neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and improve cog­ni­tion over time

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: brain training, cognition, cognitive decline, cognitive-abilities, dementia prevention, dietitian, exercise, improve-cognition, lifestyle, lifestyle risk reduction, mild-cognitive-impairment, neuroplasticity, nonpharmacological intervention, online-brain-training, physiologist

BBC brain training study apparently retracts previous overgeneralized claim that “brain training doesn’t work”

November 5, 2015 by SharpBrains

bbcbraintrainingOnline brain train­ing ‘helps old­er adults with every­day tasks’ (BBC):

“Near­ly 7,000 peo­ple aged 50 and over signed up for the six-month exper­i­ment, launched by BBC TV’s Bang Goes The Theory…Some of the vol­un­teers were encour­aged to play online brain train­ing games for 10 min­utes at a time, as often as they wished. The oth­ers — the con­trol group — were asked to do sim­ple inter­net search­es [Read more…] about BBC brain train­ing study appar­ent­ly retracts pre­vi­ous over­gen­er­al­ized claim that “brain train­ing doesn’t work”

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: BBC brain training, Brain-games, Brain-Training, brain-training-games, cognitive-function, cognitive-skills, Cognitive-Training, dementia prevention, online-brain-training, public-health

Brain teasers and games: ready for a mental workout?

October 27, 2008 by Alvaro Fernandez

You may have already seen that our Teasers sec­tion con­tains not only our selec­tion of Top 50 Brain Teasers and Games, but also a reg­u­lar­ly updat­ed page with lat­est Games for the Brain.

Below you have the brain games and teasers we have added in 2008 so far. Ready? brain teasers job interview
— Octo­ber 2008: Top Brainy Haikus. Yours?.

- Sep­tem­ber 2008: What is going on with these pictures?.

- Sep­tem­ber 2008: 7 Brain­teasers for Job Interviews.

- August 2008: Can you use men­tal self rota­tion to read a map?.

- August 2008: Spot the Dif­fer­ences! how many are there?.

- July 2008 [Read more…] about Brain teasers and games: ready for a men­tal workout?

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers Tagged With: brain-exercise, Brain-exercises, Brain-games, brain-teaser, Brain-Training, brainteasers, haikus, mental-fitness, mental-rotation, mind-teasers, online-brain-training

Brainy Haikus for brain training

October 4, 2008 by Alvaro Fernandez

Thank you to every­one who has writ­ten so many fun haikus over the sum­mer (fol­low­ing the post Top 25 Brain and Mind Haikus. Yours?). These are the 10 I have enjoyed the haikus brainmost:

(Also, Can you write a haiku describ­ing any­thing cross­ing your mind now? Remem­ber the sim­ple rules: write 3 lines, which don’t need to rhyme, con­tain­ing 5,7, and 5 syl­la­bles. You can leave your haiku as a com­ment below for extra points…)

—–
Top 10 Brainy Haikus — enjoy!

- Amit:

Love, col­lege, career.
A new world of transitions.
Will I sur­vive? Yes.

- Kathy:

My release technique,
For­give, for­get, love all,
Med­i­tate on that!

- Alan:

Through the microscope,
slice of brain stains pink and blue,
the won­der of thought.

- Justin:

Justin the genieus
Must spell check the word genius
to post this Haiku

- Tim: [Read more…] about Brainy Haikus for brain training

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers Tagged With: aikido, brain, Brain Teasers, brain-exercise, Brain-exercises, Brain-games, distracted, genius, haiku, haikus, meditation, mind, mind-teasers, online-brain-training, poetry, thought, wonder, write-haiku, write-haikus, yoga

Traveler IQ Brain Teaser

December 16, 2007 by Alvaro Fernandez

Just came across this very stim­u­lat­ing and fun Trav­el­er IQ inter­ac­tive game…enjoy!

Link: Trav­el­er IQ Challenge

Note: at the bot­tom of the page you can select a vari­ety of chal­lenges (flags of the world, UNESCO sites, North Amer­i­ca…) My favourite: Pho­tos of the World.

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers Tagged With: adult-brain-teaser, brain-game, brain-teaser, fun, mind-game, online-brain-training, stimulating, traveler-IQ

Brain Fitness Program: How to Evaluate and Choose One

December 10, 2007 by Alvaro Fernandez

The hol­i­days are approach­ing and you can expect many soft­ware and game devel­op­ers to adver­tise their prod­ucts SharpBrains Checklistaggres­sive­ly, try­ing to get you buy their “brain train­ing” prod­ucts for you or as a gift for a loved one.

The good news is that there are more and more tools we can use to keep men­tal­ly stim­u­lat­ed and even train and improve spe­cif­ic cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties (like pro­cess­ing speed, short-term mem­o­ry…). You may be read­ing about Nin­ten­do Brain Age, Posit Sci­ence, Fast For­Word, Mind­Fit, Lumos­i­ty, Hap­py Neu­ron, MyBrain­Train­er, emWave, StressEras­er and more. And, of course, there are also non-tech­nol­o­gy based interventions.

The bad news is that it is dif­fi­cult to sep­a­rate mar­ket­ing from sci­en­tif­ic claims, and to under­stand which one, if any, may be a good com­ple­ment to oth­er healthy lifestyle choices.

To help you nav­i­gate this process, we are pub­lish­ing the Sharp­Brains Check­list below, based on dozens of inter­views with sci­en­tists, experts and consumers:

10 Ques­tions to Choose the Right Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram for You (and a brief expla­na­tion of why each ques­tion is important)

* 1. Are there sci­en­tists, ide­al­ly neu­ropsy­chol­o­gists, and a sci­en­tif­ic advi­so­ry board [Read more…] about Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram: How to Eval­u­ate and Choose One

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: brain-exercise, brain-fitness-program, Brain-Training, cognitive, cognitive-abilities, cognitive-fitness, cognitive-interventions, Cognitive-Training, emWave, Fast-ForWord, Happy-Neuron, healthy-aging, improve-memory, lifestyle-brain, Lumosity, MindFit, MyBrainTrainer, Neurogenesis, neuropsychologist, Nintendo-Brain-Age, online-brain-training, Posit-Science, processing-speed, Psychology, StressEraser

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