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·October 11, 2024·4 min read

Brain Endurance Training Combats Age-Related Decline in Focus

Brain endurance training (BET), a combined cognitive and exercise approach, has been shown to significantly improve cognitive and physical performance in older adults. In a study with sedentary women aged 65-78, BET participants showed greater improvements in attention and executive function, along with increased physical endurance. This method, originally developed for athletes, could play a role in reducing age-related cognitive decline and physical challenges such as balance issues.

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·July 22, 2024·4 min read

Daily Naps and Brain Training Reduce Dementia Risk

Exercising our brains with daily habits like naps and memory workouts, instead of relying on smartphones, can reduce the risk of age-related dementia. A new study highlights the superiority of human intelligence over AI. The study emphasizes nurturing our brain's potential for healthy aging. It also offers practical tips for boosting brain power and maintaining real intelligence.

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·June 5, 2024·5 min read

Brain Training in Kids Shows No Real-World Benefits

Brain training exercises for children do not significantly improve their cognitive control, academic performance, or delay gratification. The research debunks the effectiveness of such programs, showing no long-term brain changes. Despite improving specific task performance, the benefits did not extend to broader cognitive or behavioral outcomes.

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·February 23, 2023·3 min read

Trained Brains Rapidly Suppress Visual Distractions

Following training, the brain's visual center can suppress neuronal responses to pop-out distractors that are usually enhanced compared to other, non-distracting stimuli.

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·June 20, 2022·5 min read

Who Benefits From Brain Training and Why?

People who are competent at "near transfer", or skilled ability at similar games, are more likely to also have far transfer skills, meaning a greater ability to focus on daily living activities.

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·September 14, 2020·5 min read

You Can Train Your Brain to Reduce Motion Sickness

Two weeks of visuospatial training reduced motion sickness by 51% in a driving simulator and by 58% during on-road journeys.

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·February 7, 2020·2 min read

Brain training does not improve early number skills

Brain training exercises do not help boost early math learning. However, core thinking skills, including memory and attention, are key skills that support early math learning.

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·August 19, 2019·3 min read

Online brain games can extend in-game ‘cognitive youth’ into old age

Playing online games which are mentally taxing can help older adults to reduce cognitive decline associated with aging. Older adults who played brain training games showed similar brain functionality as younger people who were less practiced at the games.

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·June 20, 2019·5 min read

How to train your brain to have lucid dreams

A sleep researcher shares the secrets for training your brain to experience lucid dreams.

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·May 7, 2019·5 min read

Train your brain to eat less sugar

A new brain training game in which players navigate a grocery store, earning rewards for selecting healthy food options, may help to reduce the desire to give into sugar cravings. Participants who had higher initial preferences for sugary foods lost as much as 3.1% body weight following daily gameplay.

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·April 14, 2019·3 min read

Train your brain, change your brain

Neurofeedback training helps reinforce brain patterns associated with motor function while participants complete imaginary motor tasks. The findings may help in the rehabilitation for stroke and other disorders that compromise motor function.

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·January 28, 2019·2 min read

Train the Brain to Form Good Habits Through Repetition

According to researchers, forming both good and bad habits depends more on how often you perform an action than the satisfaction you get from the action.

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brain training

Brain Endurance Training Combats Age-Related Decline in Focus

Daily Naps and Brain Training Reduce Dementia Risk

Brain Training in Kids Shows No Real-World Benefits

Trained Brains Rapidly Suppress Visual Distractions

Who Benefits From Brain Training and Why?

You Can Train Your Brain to Reduce Motion Sickness

Brain training does not improve early number skills

Online brain games can extend in-game ‘cognitive youth’ into old age

How to train your brain to have lucid dreams

Train your brain to eat less sugar

Train your brain, change your brain

Train the Brain to Form Good Habits Through Repetition

Targeting Reward Pathways to Treat Depression

Maternal X Chromosome Accelerates Brain Aging

Dopamine Drives Aggression Learning in Males

Microglia Act Differently in Male and Female Brains

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