Archive for July, 2007

Brain Games: Sudoku, Mind Medley

New Games From Real Train Your Brain: Sudoku.com, Mind Medley and …
CNNMoney.com 
“Mind Medley – Players will test their through a series of 16 brain games with familiar play patterns like Concentration, Simon and Color Matching …”

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Cognitive Fitness

Learn more about the Cognitive Fitness and Health Roadmap by the CDC and Alzheimer’s Association.

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135000 Youths Suffer Sports-Related Traumatic Brain Injuries Yearly

135000 Youths Suffer Sports-Related Traumatic Brain Injuries Yearly
FOX News -“About 135000 or 65 percent of sports- and recreation-related traumatic brain injuries treated in US emergency rooms each year occur in young people ages 5 …”

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Nintendo Brain Age

Brain Age 2
Thunderbolt, UK – Brain Age 2 has (finally) arrived on local shores and just like the first brain training non-game that took the world by storm, this whole new selection of …”

More information on how to evaluate brain training products Here. You may also enjoy this PBS special on neuroplasticity and brain fitness software.

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Brain exercise

Train your brain
Indianapolis Star, United States 

“In the past six months, at least a dozen companies have been touting brain exercise programs — and more are expected to flood the market soon. …”

It mentions our main website as a source of brain exercise information and programs.

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Specific Statin Significantly Reduces Alzheimer’s And Parkinson’s

Specific Statin Significantly Reduces Alzheimer’s And Parkinson’s

Science Daily — “Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that the statin, simvastatin, reduces the incidence of Alzheimer’s…”

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Videogames for brain health?

Can you beef up your brain with video games?
MSNBC -Jul 20, 2007
“In 2005, Nintendo struck gaming gold when it created “Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day” for the handheld Nintendo DS game machine. …”

See more at Nintendo BrainAge, Happy Neuron, Lumosity, MyBrainTrainer…

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Great Expectations: Why The Placebo Effect Varies From Person To Person

Great Expectations: Why The Placebo Effect Varies From Person To Person
“Science Daily (press release) -A new study from the University of Michigan Health System may help explain why. Using two different types of brain scans, UM researchers have found that the …”

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‘Brain Games’: 10-Second Review

10-Second Review: ‘Brain Games’
Rockford Register Star, IL

By Thomas V. Bona This is a great sampler of puzzles, from familiar crossword and Sudoku to the intimidating but intriguing Kaidoku, for people who want to…”

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Train your Brain to Erase Bad Memories

People can train themselves to forget bad memories, study says
Los Angeles Times, CA  Jul 12, 2007
“You can train yourself to remember something and you can train yourself to forget it,” said University of Colorado graduate student Brendan E. Depue, …”

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