The brain training (also often called brain exercise) craze started with Brain Age which was developed by Nintendo. Now there a whole range of them, some with celebrity pitch people. In the last few months there have been a number of studies that suggested that the programs do not help increase scores on tests for [...]
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Obesity Is Bad For Memory & Pear Shape Is Worse
July 15, 2010 – 2:03 pm
It seems that nothing is ever clear when it comes to health and well being. For quite a while now, everything that we have been reading says that apple shape is bad with pear shape being better. A big belly is bad whereas big hips are much better. Of course, neither a big belly nor [...]
Exercise And Keeping Memory
May 10, 2010 – 10:26 am
Recently there have been news articles about how physical exercise is good for the aging brain. Researchers have shown that older adults who are more physically fit tend to have bigger hippocampi. The hippocampus is an area of the brain that is involved in learning and memory. The researchers also showed that those that the [...]
What do brain experts do to keep their minds sharp?
March 1, 2010 – 12:39 pm
So what do researchers on the aging of the mind do to keep their minds sharp? A segment on NPR this morning talked about both teenage and middle aged brains. First the segment talks about how there are some things like learning new information, retrieving information and our ability to multitask slowly gets harder. However, [...]
