Brain Improvement Games

Improvement of brain and Cognitive Health: The fact or the Fiction?
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You can already have a game of Is a question of Brain of Nintendo, or heard to speak at least of him. You could have read also recently as the Laboratories of placement in road of Lumos students $3M to develop "the brain inducing games".

Communiqued of press:

- "The Laboratories of Lumos are at the center of an interest prospers in the cognitive exercise and the emerging science of the remarkable plasticity of the brain," said Amish Jani of Businesses of Pequot.

This and the other developments (as the success of Is a question of Brain of Nintendo, and the special one of PBS devoted to the brain plasticity) are signs of interest growing and a market being born still in an immature step -- and that had for result the a lot of disinformations and the a lot of confusions.

The consumers, people of trade of educators and health will be read more and more of programs as Advances Science, Dakim, Cogmed, Quickly ForWord, MindFit, Lumosity, the Happy Neurone, FitBrains, MyBrainTrainer, and more.

The good new one are that the brain is more flexible than thought once. It can be improved, does not import our age.

The bad new one are that the it is difficult to separate the marketing of the scientific complaints, and understand which program, so any, can be a good complement to the other choices of method of healthy lives.

The reality is that, in this emerging field, no business or only the product has a quantity crushing research of effectiveness behind. There is not General Solution, but useful tools for the specific groups of people with the specific objectives, and the budgets.

To allow me to address some typical questions:

- To Do these programs heal disease of Alzheimer? No program can claim that it delays in particular or prevents the disease of Alzheimer beyond the general declarations, as this mental stimulation together with the other factors of method of life (the nutrition, the physical exercise and the tension direction) can contribute towards the construction of a cognitive reserve that can reduce the probability of Alzheimer' symptoms secured by the s.

- That it can brain training does? The human cognitive capacities evolve in a selection in a manner with the ageing. Someone improve, as the recognition of model and as the emotional self-regulation; some decline, for example, treatment speed, working the memory and redsolutiant of original problems. The certain mental capacities revealed themselves trainable, nevertheless, and this furnishes the occasion to improve the execution of brain and the life quality, extending potentially an independence and an autonomy.

- How evaluates-t I if the program is good for me or my customers, my patients or my inhabitants? Ask which cognitive competences you want induced. Some programs present the advantages in such a manner nebula that it is impossible to say themselves they will produce any results. General wording "the Brain inducing" himself is limited advantage because the activities such as gardening or the erudition of a new language "induces" the brain, also. The one must ask if an improvement tested in a program of training of brain will transfer to the true life, and of ordinary one that arrives when a person induces competence or cognitive competences that are in particular pertinent there are not any general solutions to all problems. The evaluations are necessary that that are distinct of the exercises.

- Is This just a fad that will disappear soon, or a first wave by far? I believe that the technology emerges as a tool welcome to evaluate and induce the functions of specific brain, and this will render capable the more and more quick growth of a field of cognitive health that can equal physical health.

Now, that do you think?