It arrives soon in the U.S. Brain Age claims to sharpen noggins with math and word puzzles.
Brain Age: Concentration Training for Nintendo 3DS arrives on Feb. 10 to build on the mainstream appeal of the celebrated Brain Age series with new challenges to help players concentrate as they block out distractions.
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In the minds of gamers, Nintendo is and will always be the company that makes Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong et al. But to others, Nintendo is first and foremost the company that makes Brain Age, Wii Fit, or just funnels Netflix into their TVs.
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Using imaging, scientists have shown that meditation can improve the functional performance of specific circuits in the brain and may reduce age-related shrinkage of several brain centers, particularly those that may be vulnerable in disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.
Of course there are some uncontrollable factors that affect the brain as you age.
Early environmental enrichments that include better nutrition, more exercise and cognitive stimulation from ages 3 to 5 both improves brain functioning at age 11 and also reduces crime at age 23 by 35%.
To stave off or reverse diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, scientists will explore the changes that occur in the brain as we age, laying the groundwork for prevention and treatment of age-related neurological diseases.
Research details a number of ways in which the brain actually improves with age.
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New research is providing insight into how stress can shrink your brain cells and prematurely age your immune system.
On this day Pickens became a subject of Park's ten-year study to measure how brain function changes with age.
Mr Dewar died in October last year from a brain haemorrhage, at the age of 63.
Steve Sabol died of a brain tumor Monday at the age of 69.
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In this study, the researchers tested the skin patch on mice with an age-related brain degeneration similar to Alzheimer's.
The fire of competitiveness doesn't dwindle after age 25 along with brain mass and steroid levels, it appears.
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Diagnosed with brain cancer at a relatively young age, she saw Mr. Klipper when she came to the hospital for chemotherapy and other treatments, including a particularly painful procedure in which doctors administered radiation after clamping her head in a vise.
In terms of size, the brain is pretty much done by the age of seven.
Kennedy died Tuesday night at age 77 after being ill with brain cancer for 15 months.
At the age of 10 parts of the brain connected with decision-making and judgement are still developing, the study says.
Around 350 children under the age of 15 are diagnosed with brain cancer each year in the UK, say Cancer Research UK who funded the research.
Just 17 days later Richard was dead at the age of 24 from a rare brain tumour and his parents agreed to donate his kidneys and corneas.
She says scientists used microscopes to compare slices from the autistic brain with matching slices from the brain of a typical man who had died at age 25.
And although imaging studies show that middle-aged people may use different brain regions to do the same old tasks, cognitive tests show that apart from brute speed, the brain's abilities are not diminished in middle age.
That part of the brain is essential for entering deep sleep, but with age the region degrades.
The brain needs to learn how to see and after the age of seven it begins to lose this ability.
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That began to change in the 1980s when a group of scientists examined the entire brain of a man with autism who had died at age 29.
Moses Chao, one of the wisest men I know, and a leading NYU neuro-scientist, has been warning me for 2 years about the danger of not finding a cure for Alzheimers, a debilitating disease of the brain that currently affects some 5 million Americans over the age of 65.
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