Today Posit Science launched a new Facebook application called The 60 Second Brain Game. Some of you may have already played it on the Posit Science site, but we encourage you to play on Facebook too. Why? Because it’s a great way to challenge your friends and family to see who can get the highest [...]

1. Reflecting on Memorial Day
2. Supporting Our Troops – With Brain Training & A Donation Program
3. Brain Games vs. Brain Exercises

An article from Glamour Magazine’s February 2008 issue talks about 5 secrets of your brain.  These ‘secrets’ are just some of the content neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt, Ph.D., coauthor of Welcome to Your Brain speaks about in her book. While I question whether any of them are really a ‘secret’, I do find Secrets #2 and [...]

1. Early Results: European Study Combines Exercise and Brain Training for Memory
2. Brain Games vs. Brain Exercises
3. Our Brain Awareness Session on Brain Plasticity & Brain Fitness with Dr. Michael Merzenich

I just got a sneak peek of the new PBS show called Brain Fitness Frontiers in which our own founder, Dr. Mike Merzenich, is featured. One of the everyday examples of brain fitness Dr. Mike mentions is how older people can avoid falling down by training their brains to keep their head upright when they [...]

1. Dog Owners Excel in Physical and Cognitive Fitness
2. Traumatic Brain Injury: It’s More Common, More Frightening, and More Preventable Than You Think
3. Evaluating Brain Fitness Programs – Which Should I Choose?

Repair, Reactivate and Rejuvenate are all words I just came across while reading a magazine aimed at the more ‘sophisticated and achievement-oriented’ women of America.  Unfortunately these words were not in an article for brain fitness - although they could have been as that is what brain fitness exercises have been proven to achieve.   Instead the words were [...]

1. Friday Fun: Activity Roundup
2. UFOV Training Reduces Medical Expenditures
3. Misleading Science Claims: The Case of Baby Einstein

Why isn’t brain health top of mind? Recently I’ve been speaking to people all over the country about what a healthy lifestyle means to them.  The reason I’m doing this is to understand where brain health fits in with overall health: eating right, exercise and emotional health.  What I mostly hear from folks is that [...]

1. Gentlemen: Start Your Engines! It’s Men’s Health Week
2. Giving Health Advice for Older People? Don’t Forget the Brain!
3. Person of the Year