Category Archives: Mind Fitness

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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Drugs to Enhance Cognition Could Become As Common As Coffee

November 7, 2006 – 7:42 am

Drugs to enhance cognition are reported on in the BBC report by the UK organization Foresight. This report makes futuristic predictions in the brain health area about brain enhancers. Drugs that can have a positive influence on the brain, according to the article, might get abused by healthy people, including children, might one day take [...]

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