There are ongoing efforts by cognitive science laboratories and companies to develop cognitive assessment and brain training software that will function on mobile phones and tablets.
His views are shared by Michel Bruyninckx, formerly academy director for Belgian club Standard Liege and now at Qatar's Aspire Academy, who is something of a pioneer when it comes to brain training in soccer players.
In addition, we might be able to play immersive apps that incorporate the best video game mechanics into brain training programs to enhance cognition, perhaps allowing people to correct neural deficiencies and even delay the development of dementia.
But a problem with brain-training games is that people often get bored and don't continue with them.
"Aerobic exercise is two to three times as effective as any known brain-training activity, " says Sam Wang, Ph.
Dr Miller has conducted studies on the effects of brain-training games on learning.
Training your brain to be positive at work is just like training your muscles at the gym.
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He's heading the Symphony Project, one of the first longitudinal studies of its kind on the effects of musical training on brain development.
Research by Stanford scientists has shown that musical training improves how the brain processes spoken words, and could lead to improvement in reading ability for children with dyslexia and other problems.
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O'Dell's form of therapy--intensive sensory and motor-skills training to help the brain build and strengthen neural pathways--has never been subjected to an unbiased clinical trial or peer-reviewed by a medical journal.
Dr. Wolinsky said the next study he expects to pursue will use functional MRI imaging to measure changes in the brain in people participating in cognitive-training exercises, he said.
In the study published Friday, Dr. Bastian, Pablo Celnik from Johns Hopkins University and colleagues studied healthy individuals and whether brain stimulation and split-belt treadmill training, used simultaneously, can speed up progress in smoothing out walking gaits.
When children were retested five to 20 days post-program, researchers found no significant increases in verbal intelligence or brain changes for the children who completed the visual art training module.
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Organizations training support-group leaders include WomenHeart, the American Brain Tumor Association and the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
Weiner succeeded Donald Fehr as union head in 2009, and this tour is his first of spring training since announcing in August he is being treated for a brain tumor.
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She added this could specifically help medical and military training and further research could be carried out to see if sleep loss affected other brain and memory functions in a similar way.
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That side of my brain had begun to develop in high school, largely because I was a competitive runner who read books on training and learned to coach myself.
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