Tag Archives: cognitive improvement

Music is Good for Your Brain

July 9, 2010 – 5:49 pm

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 [...]

By Dr. Bernard Croisile | Posted in Aging Well, Baby Boomers, Brain health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Rehabilitation, Cognitive Training, Health & Wellness, traumatic brain injury | Also tagged , | Comments (0)

Cognitive Ability is More Important than Age

June 11, 2010 – 9:32 pm

In neuroscience news this week, a newly published study by Scott Huettel, Ph.D. (Associate Professor of psychology and neuroscience and director of the Duke Center for Neuroeconomic Studies) attempts to help disprove the myth that simply aging makes us inferior at financial decision making compared to our younger counterparts. Dr. Huettel’s study was published earlier [...]

By Dr. Bernard Croisile | Posted in Brain Decline, Brain Research, Cognitive Impairment, Cognitive Neuroscience, Health & Wellness, Memory, Seniors, mild cognitive impairment | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (1)

7 Ways to Improve Your Energy and Mental Focus

June 4, 2010 – 6:25 pm

This Brain Fitness for Life blog  has delivered several articles on ways to keep your memory sharp. Many of you have also inquired about ways to keep your natural energy up throughout the day to help you concentrate better. There are some simple, scientifically proven, things you can do during the course of the day [...]

By Michael Rucker | Posted in Attention Skills, Brain Research, Brain health, Health & Wellness, Lifelong learning, Mind Fitness, Mind/Body, Physical Exercise, brain food | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (10)

Is Your Brain Tangled?

March 25, 2010 – 5:57 pm

Have you ever been curious why some people are able to keep their memory sharp without much effort, where the rest of us have to do all we can to ensure that we keep our cognitive abilities from declining? A new study presented by Changiz Geula, PhD, (principal investigator of the Northwestern University Super Aging [...]

By Dr. Bernard Croisile | Posted in Alzheimers, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurons, neural connections | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (6)

Can Cooking Dinner Help Your Brain?

January 15, 2010 – 5:36 pm

Cooking is an activity that takes a person through a variety of brain functions. When we take to our kitchens to prepare our favorite dinner recipes, we are also honing many of our cognitive skills.

By Michael Rucker | Posted in Aging Well, Attention Skills, Brain exercises, Brain health, Health & Wellness, Mind Fitness, brain food | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (3)

Key Cognitive Skills for Sports Performance

August 15, 2009 – 11:52 pm

Did you manage to match the right sports with the right skills?
Here are the answers from the prior blog post:

Sports
Skills

Hockey:
- Depth perception

- Reaction speed

Racquetball:
- Visual trajectory analysis

- Visuo-spatial exploration

- Anticipation

Rowing:
- Team coordination

- Planning/strategic skills

Hiking:
- Visuo-spatial awareness

- Depth perception

Sailing:
- Environment analysis

- Team management

Snooker/Pool:
- Visuo-spatial perception

- Planning/strategic skills

- Concentration

Basketball:
- Strategic team work

- Court sense

- Anticipation

Archery:
- Focused attention

- [...]

By Dr. Bernard Croisile | Posted in Attention Skills, Concentration, Executive Functions, Language, Memory, Visual and Spatial Skills | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Your Brain at Work

June 30, 2009 – 11:53 pm

Learning on the job isn’t a luxury these days; it’s absolutely necessary. And that is where your brain at work comes in. The Dana Foundation has launched a new website – Your Brain at Work

By Sandrine Belier Ph.D. | Posted in Attention Skills, Brain Fitness Websites, Cognitive Training, Lifelong learning, Memory, Mind/Body, neural connections | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Better tools for Cognitive Remediation Programs

June 19, 2009 – 2:54 pm

The 5th annual Games for Health Conference was held in Boston.  It was co-sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, from whom HAPPYneuron was a proud award recipient last year. I presented about enabling better tools for professionally guided Cognitive Remediation programs. The slides can be found here…..

By Laura Fay | Posted in Brain Decline, Cognitive Impairment, Health & Wellness, Mental Health, cognitive remediation, mild cognitive impairment, plasticity | Also tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

New Cognitive Progress Graph

May 15, 2009 – 7:04 pm

The Cognitive Progress graphs have been upgraded this week, showing more of your  progressive improvements since the beginning of your cognitive training with HAPPYneuron.
There are six progress charts – one showing your overall HAPPYneuron Performance Index (HPI) progress, and one for each of your cognitive functions of Memory, Language, Attention, Visual-Spatial [...]

By Laura Fay | Posted in Brain Training, Cognitive Training | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)