Want to Reduce Your Dementia Risk? Try This Brain Training Game

A new study from Johns Hopkins found that one type of brain-training computer game may help reduce the risk of dementia by up ...
Inc

Scientists Taught a Petri Dish of Brain Cells to Play Doom—They’re Getting Better

In 2022, the team at Cortical Labs taught 800,000 brain cells in a petri dish connected to a computer how to play the 1970s game Pong. Now, years later, the same team is leveling up as they claim ...
Women's Health

Playing This Free Game Could Be Good for Your Brain

A new study using Medicare claims to identify Alzheimer’s and dementia diagnoses shows that playing a free online speed-training video game (and booster sessions) may offer protective benefits.
AOL

A 20‑Year Study Put Brain Games To The Test. This Is the Only One That Lowered Dementia Risk

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Doctors have recommended for years that people play brain games like puzzles and Sudoku to try to keep ...
Futurism

Researchers Get Human Brain Cells Running Doom

In 2022, Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs made a big splash after announcing that it had taught “mini-brains” consisting of 800,000 to one million living human brain cells in a petri dish how ...
Prevention

Scientists Find Specific Brain Training Game That Cuts Alzheimer’s Risk by 25%

Here’s what experts want you to know about the findings. Eating the best foods for brain health, exercising, and staying social are key for keeping your mind sharp with age. Now, scientists say ...
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Brain game may reduce risk of Alzheimer's and other dementias

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A certain type of brain training appears to prevent or delay dementia by some 25% in people older than age 65, according to new research. Surprisingly, it wasn't memory or ...
The Boston Globe

Confessions of a brain-training dropout

Will these people never leave us alone? Researchers have released yet another brain-health study, this one finding that people who played a speed-training video game for a mere 23 hours dramatically ...
USA Today

Brain training game may help combat dementia for decades, study finds

Playing games to train your brain into a better memory may not be just the stuff of bad app-store advertising, according to a new study two decades in the making. Research published in the journal ...
CNN

Brain game may reduce risk of Alzheimer’s and other dementias

A certain type of brain training appears to prevent or delay dementia by some 25% in people older than age 65, according to new research. Surprisingly, it wasn’t memory or problem-solving tasks that ...
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Study finds brain training games may help protect against dementia

Researchers who tracked thousands of participants over two decades found that brain training video games may help protect the brain against dementia. NBC News’ Erika Edwards spoke with a woman who ...