Now, newly released, longer-term information from the ACTIVE study shows that a triple-dose of progressively more difficult speed-of-processing game played for 60-75 minutes twice a week over five to ...

Can brain training “rewire” the brain to prevent dementia? What about repair the brain following an injury? Or turn back the ...

Critical flicker fusion (CFF), a measure of visual processing speed, predicts executive function in younger and older adults and may be helpful in predicting decline in executive function, say ...

A long-term NIH study found that older adults who completed brain speed training had a 25% lower risk of developing dementia. Participants did short, intensive training sessions focused on rapid ...

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer  Could games designed to strengthen mental skills help prevent Alzheimer’s disease as you age? According to a new 20-year study, they may.1 More than 7 million Americans ...

A 20-year follow-up of older adults in the ACTIVE randomized trial linked to Medicare claims found that speed of processing cognitive training with booster sessions was associated with a significantly ...

Recent research by Caltech has uncovered a striking limitation in human cognition: the brain processes conscious thought at a mere 10 bits per second. In contrast, our sensory systems collect a ...

Doctors often advise exercising your brain to stay sharp but stretching your brain might be the better description.

New research breaks it down.

A new study from Johns Hopkins found that one type of brain-training computer game may help reduce the risk of dementia by up to 25 percent. What’s more, that protective effect appeared to last for ...