Depending on where you live, you may have seen our new commercial on TV. We are really proud of it- because it reminds people that among other benefits, Posit Science programs are clinically proven to help people improve their memory and auditory processing, cut crash risk in half, and protect health-related quality of life for [...]
Tags: brain fitness, brain training, commercial, contest, giveaway
Posted March 16, 2010 by Karen under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Brain Fitness Marketing, Brain Fitness Program, Brain exercise, DriveSharp, InSight, Memory, Posit Science software, Processing speed, Research studies
It has become clear over the last few years that one of the many benefits of regular physical exercise is a better functioning brain. In a recent review paper Erickson and Kramer (2009) noted the following:
People who exercise regularly have larger volumes of grey matter in important regions of the [...]
Tags: brain fitness, Brain plasticity, Exercise, lifestyle, scientific studies
Posted March 10, 2010 by Peter under Brain exercise, Exercise, Physical exercise, Posit Science software, Research studies
About the Brain is a new section on the Posit Science website that’s chock-full of great information about the brain and brain fitness.
You can choose from these areas of interest:
Brain Facts helps you understand how your brain and brain plasticity work. It answers all kinds of questions, like “Are crosswords really good for your [...]
Tags: brain fitness, brain function, Brain plasticity, brain training, lifestyle
Posted March 2, 2010 by Marghi under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Brain exercise, Exercise, Memory, Neuroscience
As someone with a deep interest in music, I’ve often wondered about that age-old question: where does music come from? It’s become a cliché for musicians to wax philosophical about how their creative impulses come from “deep within” or that improvisation is a way of expressing their “true self”, but good luck getting anything more [...]
Tags: Charles Limb, creativity, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, improvisation, jazz, Johns Hopkins, medial prefrontal cortex, MRI, music
Posted March 1, 2010 by Cyrus under Brain exercise, Neuroscience, Odds and Ends, Research studies
At the Transportation Research Board annual meeting last year I attended a talk by Dr. Fredric Wolinsky of the University of Iowa. Along with his colleagues, he conducted an analysis of participants in the ACTIVE clinical trial, the largest study of cognitive training performed to date. He found that people who had done ten hours [...]
Tags: ACTIVE study, brain fitness, brain training, Fredric Wolinsky, medical expenditures, Medicare, scientific studies, University of Iowa
Posted February 16, 2010 by Peter under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Brain exercise, DriveSharp, Exercise, InSight, Neuroscience, Posit Science software, Processing speed, Research studies
For all of us here at Posit Science and, I would imagine, to most of the people who follow the neuroscience behind brain training, the concept of brain plasticity is extremely liberating. The old guard notion of a “hard-wired” brain with little capability of changing beyond puberty has given way to a complete rethinking of [...]
Tags: children, kids, social network, susan greenfield, technology, video games
Posted February 9, 2010 by Cyrus under Brain exercise, Brain plasticity, Neuroscience, Research studies
This week something really neat is happening in Long Beach, California. It’s the annual TED Conference- a meeting of some of the world’s great minds of science, technology, design, and entertainment. While not all of us are able to attend the very exclusive TED Conference, we can all benefit from the wonderful videos they post [...]
Tags: michael merzenich, TED
Posted February 9, 2010 by Karen under Brain exercise, Brain plasticity, Neuroscience, Odds and Ends, Research studies
Learning a new skill, like juggling a soccer ball, takes focus and practice … what new skill have you tried recently to push your mind?
Tags: challenge, children, kids, soccer, sports
Posted February 8, 2010 by Steven under Brain exercise, Brain plasticity, Physical exercise, Processing speed
Recently Dr. Jerri Edwards of the University of South Florida published a paper showing that older adults who cease driving have higher mortality rates.1 You might think this can be easily explained by the fact that unhealthy people are more likely to cease driving. However, Dr. Edwards used an analytical method to take into account [...]
Tags: depression, Driving, driving cessation, health care, isolation, jerri edwards, mortality
Posted February 4, 2010 by Peter under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Brain exercise, DriveSharp, Driving, InSight, Neuroscience, Research studies
Over a recent long weekend I participated in a 4-day camp that teaches children with disabilities how to ride a bike. One of the participants in this camp was my son Daniel, who is six and has autism. The bi-annual camp was put together through a partnership between the Sonoma State Kinesiology department and [...]
Tags: autism, bicycles, Bikes, cerebral palsy, children with disabilities, kinesiology, learning to ride a bike, Lose the Training Wheels, richard klein, sonoma state university, UCP
Posted February 1, 2010 by Michael under Exercise, Neuroscience, Odds and Ends, Physical exercise