Below are a few of the best online links I’ve come across lately regarding brain health and fitness, exercise, brain games, memory improvement, and anti-aging. I hope you’ll find them as informative and useful as I did.
They noted that exercise reaped benefits even for previously sedentary 85-year-olds; their three-year survival rate was double that of inactive 85-year-olds.
Oldsters didn’t have to be super-athletes to live longer; walking at least four hours weekly counted, even if it was just in 15-minute strolls a few times daily.
How cool is that? And as previously written about here on this blog, it has been shown that physical exercise can even reverse brain decline.
- 47 Ways to Fine Tune Your Brain – This article comes from the Dumb Little Man website, but these tips are far from dumb. The article looks at dozens of tactics that will help you maintain your brain into old age and help to increase your mental agility and cognitive development.
- Increasing cognition by playing games – It’s estimated that at least 65% of Multiple Sclerosis patients endure cognition problems on a day to day basis. Can playing brain games help them? From the article:
Is it really possible to improve some, MS related, cognition issues by playing computer games? Doctors from Baylor College of Medicine here in Houston seem to think so.
If this article motivates you to play some brain games, remember we’ve got a ton of free brain games right here on this site in addition to a great list of the top commercial brain games as well!
According to Zelinski, a brain game or any other activity can’t improve thinking or turn back the mental clock unless it’s both challenging and novel enough to build new connections between brain cells.
We think that’s excellent advice! In fact, if you wan to learn more about how to choose a brain game that will work for you specifically, subscribe to our newsletter and receive a free brain games guide.
A new study finds obese people have 8 percent less brain tissue than normal-weight individuals. Their brains look 16 years older than the brains of lean individuals, researchers said today.
Hefty jolts of caffeine have reinvigorated the brains of old, demented mice at the University of South Florida.
Well, that’s it for now. I hope you enjoyed the brain fitness news links presented this month and found them enlightening.
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Simon Online Brain Game
One of my daughters challenged me last night to an online brain game called Simon. It’s the online version of the hand held Simon concentration game. The online version of this game is a lot of fun and works both your visual and auditory memory.
The Simon game can be found here on The Online Brain Games Blog under the page titled Free Brain Games. I encourage you to go check it out and have some fun whilst exercising your brain cells.
So, you want to know how the challenge ended up? My daughter beat me at Simon last night by a wide margin. My highest score was 12, but she achieved a score of 25. That’s quite an impressive score, I do have to say!
Give Simon a try yourself and tell me what YOUR highest score is by posting it in the comment section below.
Have fun and exercise some brain cells at the same time!!
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Let’s face it, we’re all growing older every day. If you’re over 30, Scientists say the number of brain cells you have are starting to decline. But, they also say that based on a physical behavior called neuroplasticity, our brain can grow new brain cells throughout our lives, regardless of age. The key, they say, is to continually be challenging our brains. It’s this challenge that causes the growth. Therefore, it is possible to reverse the mental decline normally brought on as we age.
Now, lets take the neuroplasticity concept one step further..
If we were to be regularly challenging our brain, our brain would respond in turn by growing new brain cells and new brain connections. By continuing this habit over time, we not only could reverse the brain-age decline normally associated with growing old, but we could actually be building what’s called a “cognitive reserve”.
This so called cognitive reserve, or brain-buffer, can help protect us against Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. In fact, studies such as the Nun Study have shown that even if we do contract the markers of Alzheimer’s, our cognitive reserve can help us compensate.
Nun Study Video:
So how do we go about building our brain-buffer? Well, Alvaro Fernandez tells us how via the four pillars of brain health. To learn more about these four pillars, click here.
How big is your brain-buffer? Why not increase it’s size by playing some free online brain games? Check out our list of free online brain games by clicking here.
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The Stroop Effect test is a cool brain teaser which exercises your brain. To play the game, you start by pronouncing the color of the following words. Don’t read the words, just pronounce the colors of the words.
Green Red Blue
Purple Blue Purple
Easy enough, right? Now, do the same for this second group of words. Again, don’t read the words, just pronounce the color of the words.
Blue Purple Red
Green Purple Green
Ahh… That time is was a little more difficult wasn’t it? It took you a little more time to go through the list of words. The reason is that the color of the second group of words does not match the actual word itself. This causes a delay in the time it takes to name the color of the words in the second group. This is called the Stroop Effect.
The Stroop Effect test exercises the portion of the brain which is considered to be responsible for higher order executive functions (frontal lobe). The Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! software program for the Nintendo DS contains an automated Stroop Test built into it.
Check out the YouTube video below based on the Stroop Effect test.
The link below takes you to an interactive version of the Stroop Task game. It’s difficulty increases as you get better. It’s a blast to play!
Click The Color
For even more online brain games, click here.
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