Category Archives: Brain exercises

Bilingualism delays onset of dementia: study

January 22, 2007 – 12:12 pm

Here is another study on the benefits of studying another language. “If you have two languages in your brain, you need a way to keep them straight, otherwise you might say the wrong thing,” she said. It’s one of the things that often goes wrong with people suffering from dementia. They can no longer control [...]

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Resolve to Exercise Your Brain

January 3, 2007 – 3:48 pm

The Alliance for Aging Research is encouraging Americans to boost their brain health. “There is a lot we can do to keep our brains healthy and potentially prevent or lessen the cognitive decline that often comes with aging,” Daniel Perry, executive director of the nonprofit Alliance for Aging Research” You can see the full article [...]

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Exercise Appears To Improve Brain Function

December 22, 2006 – 3:45 pm

Here is another report that links exercise and the brain. “Physical activity may be beneficial to cognition during early and middle periods of the human lifespan and may continue to protect against age-related loss of cognitive function during older adulthood”. You can see this story in full here 

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Mental Exercise Helps Maintain Thinking Skills

December 21, 2006 – 1:45 pm

Here is a great new study that supports what we are doing at Happy Neuron. Certain mental exercises can offset some of the expected decline in older adults’ thinking skills and show promise for maintaining cognitive abilities needed to do everyday tasks such as shopping, making meals and handling finances, according to a new study. [...]

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Building the Mental Savings Account

December 2, 2006 – 2:26 pm

There is an article on Happyneuron.com over at KillerAPP.com. “You can’t just practice the mental skills you’re good at, according to Happy Neuron. You need to practice a broad range of skills — memory, attention, language, executive functions (logic, problem solving, etc.) and spatial and visual skills. The site offers games in each category so [...]

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INTERNET — Working out your brain

December 1, 2006 – 5:44 pm

Associated Press writer looks at brain work-outs on the web. Special attention is made to our www.happyneuron.com site and the article acknowledges the richness of our site compared to other online brain work-outs. It also states that mental calisthenics are good for you. In other words, rigorous mental activity appears to be good for brain health, and, as [...]

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Brain Games go Mobile

November 8, 2006 – 11:01 am

Following the success of Nintendo’s Brain Age, mobile publisher Digital Chocolate is releasing Brain Juice–a series of ‘casual games’ for your brain. Juice your brain with three fun, brain-stimulating modes! Boost your brain with mind blowing Mini Games that give your brain a well-deserved workout! Timed Mini Games include Quick Math, Path Memorization, Color Counting [...]

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