Latest Brain fitness Stories
COLUMBIA, Md., May 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Martek Biosciences (Nasdaq: MATK), in partnership with the National Center for Creative Aging today introduced "Beautiful Minds: Finding Your Lifelong Potential," an educational campaign designed to inspire baby boomers to be proactive about brain health. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100527/PH11635LOGO ) "Martek has a proud, 25-year heritage in brain health science and research as well as a strong history of supporting health...
SAN FRANCISCO, May 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The USA Hockey National Team Development Program (NTDP) flexed its brain muscle by taking the top medal in SharpBrains first annual Brain Fitness Innovation Awards. Designed to foster innovation and best practice sharing, the Awards celebrate outstanding pioneers applying neuroplasticity-based research and tools in the 'real world.' Put on by independent market research firm SharpBrains of San Francisco, the Awards recognize organizations devising and...
Mechanism found that prepares the brain of a newborn for information processingWith their French colleagues, researchers at the University of Helsinki have found a mechanism in the memory centre of newborn that adjusts the maturation of the brain for the information processing required later in life. The study was published this week in an American science magazine The Journal of Neuroscience.The brain cells in the brain of a newborn are still quite loosely interconnected. In the middle of...
A new study has found that people who play computer games to train their brains are not getting any smarter. The six-week study consisted of participants from viewers of the BBC's science show "Bang Goes the Theory." Over 8,600 people between the ages 18 to 60 were asked to play online brain games designed by researchers to improve their memory, reasoning and other skills for a minimum of 10 minutes a day, three times a week. This group was compared to another group of over...
SAN FRANCISCO, April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Posit Science, the leader in clinically proven brain fitness programs, contests the interpretation and methodology used in a British Broadcasting Corporation-sponsored study published in the journal Nature. Researchers in the BBC study found that their own cognitive training programs, designed specifically for their study, did not yield significant improvements in cognitive function. They suggest from this finding that all cognitive training programs...
A new study has found that people who play computer games to train their brains are not getting any smarter. The researchers six-week study consisted of participants from viewers of the BBC's science show "Bang Goes the Theory." Over 8,600 people between the ages 18 to 60 were asked to play online brain games designed by researchers to improve their memory, reasoning and other skills for a minimum of 10 minutes a day, three times a week. This group was compared to another...
BETHESDA, Md., March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The Research Partnership in Cognitive Aging, a public-private effort to promote the study of brain function with age, will award up to $28 million over five years to 17 research grants to examine the neural and behavioral profiles of healthy cognitive aging and explore interventions that may prevent, reduce or reverse cognitive decline in older people. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100301/NY62434LOGO ) The partnership, led by the...
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Getting started improving your brain health might be the best 2010 resolution you can make. As Dr. Gary Small says, in the best seller The Memory Bible, "It is never too late or too early to start beating the brain-aging game." In 2010, the author is making it easier for adults of all ages to begin employing a lifestyle of brain fitness with the recent digital format release of his best selling brain-fitness books. Dr. Gary Small, one of the world's...
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumosity.com, the leading online destination for games that improve brain performance, announced today the launch of Lumosity Brain Trainer, a new iPhone app that offers users a complete brain training experience in a mobile format. Lumosity Brain Trainer is the first mobile brain training application that integrates with a complete brain training system. Users can train on the iPhone, playing the same games that are available on the website...
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Dakim, Inc. announced today that Phoenix's Arizona State Veteran Home (ASVH), a 200-bed facility that serves the long-term care and rehabilitative needs of the military veterans of Arizona, has adopted the Dakim® BrainFitness(TM) System to provide residents with daily cognitive stimulation. Dakim's entertaining touch screen-based system is designed both for dementia prevention and for stroke and traumatic brain injury (TBI) rehabilitation....
