Top British scientist endorses brain training
Posted Aug 28 2007 1:40am
Leading British neuroscientist, Baroness Susan Greenfield, is endorsing a PC-based software programme which, she says, reverses mental decline associated with ageing.
In a two-year study in Israel, 121 volunteers, aged over 50, were asked to spend 30 minutes playing the program three times a week. Only half were given the real brain gym software while the other half was supplied with sophisticated computer games. The results showed that while all the participants benefited from regular computer activity, the ones using the brain training product experienced greater improvement in short-term memory, visuo-spatial learning and focused attention.
“There is evidence that such stimulation prompts brain cells to start branching out and form new connections with other cells”, one of Britain’s leading brain experts Baroness Susan Greenfield told London’s Sunday Times.
Greenfield, who is director of the Royal Institution, and runs an Oxford University laboratory researching the causes of degenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s, told the Sunday Times, “it is clear that there is no drug on the horizon to treat Alzheimer’s or age-related mental decline”. She also said, “There is now good scientific evidence to show that exercising the brain can slow, delay and protect against age-related decline”. Baroness Greenfield is urging people in their middle years, who are healthy and want to stay that way, to start using brain training software now as a preventative measure.
To see the full story in the Times click here: Top Scientist Backs Workout for the Brain
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