Explanation: How Brain Training Can Make You Significantly Smarter
As many people hit middle age, they often start to notice that their memory and mental clarity are not what they used to be. We suddenly can't remember where we put the keys just a moment ago, or an old acquaintance's name, or the name of an old band we used to love. As the brain fades, we euphemistically refer to these occurrences as "senior moments."
While seemingly innocent, this loss of mental focus can potentially have a detrimental impact on our professional, social, and personal well-being.
It happens to most of us, but is it inevitable?
Neuroscientists are increasingly showing that there's actually a lot that can be done. It turns that the brain needs exercise in much the same way our muscles do, and the right mental workouts can significantly improve our basic cognitive functions. Thinking is essentially a process of making neural connections in the brain. To a certain extent, our ability to excel in making the neural connections that drive intelligence is inherited. However, because these connections are made through effort and practice, scientists believe that intelligence can expand and fluctuate according to mental effort.
Now, a new San Francisco Web-based company has taken it a step further and developed the first "brain training program" designed to actually help people improve and regain their mental sharpness. Called Lumosity, it was designed by some of the leading experts in neuroscience and cognitive psychology from Stanford University.
Lumosity, is far more than an online place to exercise your mental skills. That's because they have integrated these exercises into a Web-based program that allows you to systematically improve your memory and attention skills. The program keeps track of your progress and provides detailed feedback on your performance and improvement. Most importantly, it constantly modifies and enhances the games you play to build on the strengths you are developing--much like an effective exercise routine requires you to increase resistance and vary your muscle use.
Does it work?
Apparently it does. In randomized, controlled clinical trials, Lumosity was shown to significantly improve basic cognitive functions. One study showed students improved their scores on math tests by 34 percent after using Lumosity for six weeks, significantly greater gains than those made by other students in the same class, who were not training with the Lumosity program.
The company says its users have reported clearer and quicker thinking, improved memory for names, numbers, directions, increased alertness and awareness, elevated mood, and better concentration at work or while driving.
While many of the games at Lumosity are free, a modest subscription fee is required to use the full program over the long term.
However, Lumosity is currently offering a free trial of their program to new users so that you can see how well it works before you decide to subscribe. The trial is completely free (no credit card required) and the company believes the results will speak for themselves.
Handicrafts, traditional clothing, jewelry and traditional Mexican food. All in the heart of Puerto Vallarta.
From 07:00 hours on Friday, unfolds the Day of the Dead operating in support of people who will visit relatives at different pantheons of the municipality.
The funds will be used for hotel projects in the Riviera Maya, Quintana Roo, Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, and Litibú, Nayarit.
By Psychologist Livier Nazareth
The aim is to strengthen coordination and response activities in the presence of a possible incident in the bay
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Because there are clear risks of food contamination or gastrointestinal diseases, it is necessary to restrict the public consumption of seafood from Puerto Vallarta and Bahia de Banderas, Nayarit, far before the prevalence of "red tide" natural phenomenon cyclic and promotes proliferation of generating toxic seaweed, warns the head of the Ministry of Health, Antonio Muñoz Serrano:
The movement was recorded at 11:22 hours with epicenter at 45 kilometers southwest of Ciudad Hidalgo, Tapachula Civil Protection reported no damage or injuries.
Remember that this Sunday, October 28, at 02:00, Daylight Saving Time ends 2012 which began on April 1 and which is applied in Mexico since 1996, as well as in 86 countries. As asked your watch one hour delay, so this Sunday dawns with the new schedule.
By clarify that the next weekend coincides with the celebration of the Day of the Dead, only the 2nd day of November is a holiday. Said Secretary of Jalsco Educacon, Antonio Gloria Morales warned is not marked on the 2012-2013 school calendar to make the bridge until Monday November 5th
Entrepreneurs exploit there lawlessness in the municipal government of Puerto Vallarta, to achieve such an old dream is to close access to the beach Hollyday Inn, part of the Peninsula.
According to reports from the Ministry of Health Jalisco, Health Jurisdiction Eighth Rafael Nunez Gomez says red tide recently detected in much of Banderas Bay Puerto Vallarta including marine Nayarit and bounds.