Category Archives: Cognitive Training

Music is Good for Your Brain

Whether it is classical, jazz, or good old-fashioned rock and roll, almost everyone enjoys listening to some form of music. Music can also be good for the brain as highlighted in a recent Cochrane Systematic Review of the prevailing research on music therapy, titled Music Therapy for Acquired Brain Injury.
When someone suffers from an acquired [...]

The Journey Towards Alzheimer’s Prevention

On April 26-28, 2010, the National Institute for Health, hosted a conference entitled “State-of-the-Science Conference, Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease and Cognitive Decline“. It was open to both professionals and the public.
The goal of the independent panel of health professionals and public officials at the meeting was to assess whether previous research on purported risk or protective [...]

Challenging the Nature & BBC Brain Games Study

As you may have read, the BBC  just published the results of a ‘brain training’ study in Nature magazine. The show “Bang goes the Theory” funded and conducted a study with 8,600 subjects using a simple set of light-weight computer games, played them for a minimal time and declared to the world that “brain games [...]

SCAN Health Plan selects HAPPYneuron’s Brain Gym

Cognitive Exercises within SCAN Health Plan’s Mobile Resource Center for Seniors
More than 20 Free Brain Training Games for Continued cognitive health
Mountain View and Long Beach, CA, March 16, 2010 — HAPPYneuron, Inc., a leading provider of brain fitness solutions, in collaboration with SCAN Health Plan, today debuted its new ‘Vital’ brain gym. The brain [...]

Does Your Brain Need to Go Back to School?

For most adolescents, teenagers, and young adults, January marks the end of winter break and a return to school. But what about those of us who are far removed from formal educational experiences? Could our brains benefit from schooling? Recently there was an article in the New York Times entitled How to Train the Aging Brain by Barbara Strauch. In the article, Barbara asks whether the aging brain is, “…a brain that should be in school?” In other words, are there activities that we can participate in that will help us improve our brain function as we age?

Help Your Brain Survive the Holidays

These brain fitness tips will help you get through the Holiday season with your brain intact, fight age-related memory loss and improve overall brain health. Plus, these cognitive exercises are easier — and more fun — than you think!
Before the tips, a quip:  “Men forget everything; women remember everything,” says comedian Rita Rudner. “That’s why [...]

New Cognitive Profile Features

We are delighted to introduce 3 new features to get the most from your cognitive cross-training experience and helping you learn more about your cognitive profile. These latest features can be seen in your Cognitive Performance Dashboard when you are logged in to your membership account at www.happy-neuron.com. Click to read more -> Cognitive Profile [...]

Brain Training Makes You More Desirable

Unbelievable for some, but true:  Apparent smarts makes men more attractive in women’s eyes!
Scientists from Elon University  conducted a study on female  students, asking them to choose the most desirable males from videos showing them accomplishing athletic and cognitive tasks. It turned out that the women picked those men who appeared the most intelligent!  It [...]

Driving with Your Brain

Some time back I wrote about the cognitive skills necessary for safe driving.  It’s ever more clear that abilities such as vision, reaction times, attention, judgment and ability to multitask, that is, to focus on more than one task at a time are all essential to our ability to be safe on the road. As [...]

New Memory Training Study Launched

A new controlled study using HAPPYneuron exercises has been launched at the prestigious University of Zurich, Institute of Psychology, Switzerland under the supervision of Dr. Anne Echen. The goal of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of episodic memory training consisting of personalized adaptive computer exercises. 40 subjects between the ages of 60 [...]