03 Mar 2010 CogniFit Blog
With this weekend’s upcoming Academy Awards, many of us may be thinking about our favorite movies and spending time in front of the television catching up on movies from the past year. What does that mean for your brain? Unfortunately, television isn’t the best thing for our brains; it’s the kind of passive activity that doesn’t help to stimulate new pathways and connections so important for cognitive health.
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29 Jan 2010 Navon Brain Fitness
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has found that video games “increase perceptual abilities, short term memory and helps people focus longer”. Their research also found that a gamer’s improved abilities can last more than two years. This is significant news for CogniFit-Personal-Coach users because independent third party double-blind-clinical trials showed that our program improves cognitive abilities significantly more than video games.
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22 Jan 2010 Navon Brain Fitness
It may not be immediately apparent to the layman as to why cognitive (brain) training programs are used by Parkinson’s disease patients. A new brain-based novel computational model developed by scientists at Rutgers University is helping us understand how Parkinson's disease and dopamine medications—used to treat motor symptoms caused by the disease— can affect learning and attention. Outside the scope of this study, what is not commonly known is that cognitive training can also help regulate the levels of dopamine in the system.
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04 Jan 2010 Navon Brain Fitness Solutions
A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Centre (UMRC) have developed an animal model which demonstrates how four commonly used chemotherapy drugs disrupt the birth of new brain cells.
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12 Dec 2009 Navon Brain Fitness
The brain’s ability to regenerate needs no better example than 4-year old Tasmanian Louisa Nielsen. After a massive seizure two years ago her parents were told she would never see again. Not only can she see again, but a few weeks ago she managed to take her first steps.
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26 Nov 2009 CogniFit Blog
The brain fitness industry is a fast growing business. New brain teasers appear each day, on the web and on mobile phones. They offer to improve your memory, attention, or other cognitive skills, all for free. They may be fun to do, but how many of them really work?
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26 Nov 2009 CogniFit Blog
Most people are aware of the phrase 'use it or lose it' as it is applied to physical fitness.
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26 Nov 2009 CogniFit Blog
As recently as 50 years ago, sleeping was considered a passive part of our daily lives. Thanks to extensive research, we now know that your brain remains active while you’re sleeping, and that getting enough sleep is extremely beneficial to your physical and mental health.
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26 Nov 2009 CogniFit Blog
The idea that aging leads to mental decline is not new. As William Shakespeare wrote in Much Ado About Nothing, “When the age is in, the wit is out." But the good news is that recent research is proving that this idea is not entirely true.
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30 Oct 2009 CogniFit Blog
Results from an interesting study comparing lemonade made with sugar and other with a sugar substitute.
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