Sentences with phrase «of brain fitness»

Merzenich insists on getting independent researchers to evaluate the efficacy of Brain Fitness.

The earliest clinical tests of Brain Fitness, from 2006, were preliminary and regarded with caution.

For his next version of Brain Fitness, Merzenich is expanding the program, which currently emphasizes auditory processing, to include exercises that strengthen visual processing as well as complex reasoning and planning.

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A Toronto - based company hopes to capture a slice of the $ 1 - billion brain fitness market by helping baby boomers answer that question.

At U of T and elsewhere, labs are running brain - fitness training experiments, hoping to teach focus and the use of more of the brain.

A version of the speed training program developed for this trial is now commercially available through the brain fitness company Posit Science, but the researchers are working on making other types of training available as well.

One of the world's leading cognitive science institutes announced today it has created a new company with MaRS, Canada's premiere innovation centre, to develop and market brain fitness products to help adults extend their memory and cognitive abilities longer in the lifespan.

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The findings are the first to indicate that aerobic fitness may relate to the structure and function of the preadolescent human brain.

Researchers have found an association between physical fitness and the brain in 9 - and 10 - year - old children: Those who are more fit tend to have a bigger hippocampus and perform better on a test of memory than their less - fit peers.

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The group that received all three interventions consistently performed the best, and showed substantial gains in two of the tasks over the group that received cognitive and physical fitness training but did not receive brain stimulation.

«Physical activity and aerobic fitness are known to have beneficial effects on the underlying structures and functions of the brain,» said Barbey, a member of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at Illinois.

The beneficial effects of cognitive training can be significantly enhanced with the addition of physical fitness training and noninvasive brain stimulation.»

Regardless of gender, young adults who have greater aerobic fitness also have greater volume of their entorhinal cortex, an area of the brain responsible for memory.

Facing the specter of Alzheimer's disease, the most devastating and widespread manifestation of brain deterioration in old age, worried baby boomers have inspired whole catalogs of brain - fitness books and services.

This suggests that exercise training, when designed to increase aerobic fitness, might have a positive effect on the brain in healthy young adults,» explained corresponding author and principal investigator Karin Schon, PhD, BUSM assistant professor of anatomy and neurobiology.

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Sales of «brain fitness» software increased from a few million dollars in 2005 to $ 80 million in 2007, according to an estimate from the consulting firm Sharpbrains.

For Col. Dallas Hack, a physician and the brain health / fitness research coordinator at Fort Detrick, Md., the advantage of Schneider's HDFT technology is the ability to see and quantify the damaged circuits.

The researchers point out that high school sports offer clear benefits of physical fitness on cardiovascular health, and some studies also have suggested a possible protective effect against later degenerative brain illness.

After factors such as diet, education, tobacco use, alcohol consumption, and hypertension were statistically controlled to isolate the effect of exercise, the team found a clear correlation between greater fitness and greater brain - tissue density.

Compared with the control group, the Brain Fitness subjects increased their information processing speed (on tasks like picking out key details from a conversation) an average of 131 percent.

Six of the subjects did the standard Brain Fitness course; another six, constituting the control group, played a video game and read The New York Times.

Brain Fitness was developed by a team of neuroscientists led by Michael Merzenich, a coinventor of both the cochlear implant and a highly regarded software package for treating dyslexia in children (see «The Elastic Brain» by Katherine Ellison in DISCOVER, May 2007).

His latest results are encouraging enough to have had a trickle - down effect, aiding the credibility of the whole brain - fitness movement.

Future studies following individuals» fitness and physical activity levels, memory, and brain function over the course of years would more directly address this issue.

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In other words, compromising the fitness of stem cells in this brain region,» explains Violeta Silva Vargas, the first author of the study.

Half the group completed about 2 months of exercises with Brain Fitness, a commercially available auditory training program by Posit Science.

Both groups — one which included adults with MCI and the other with healthy brain function — improved their cardiovascular fitness by about ten percent at the end of the intervention.

The findings, which appear online in the Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, are the first to show a relationship between fitness and brain structure in older adults, but not younger adults.

The researchers found cardiorespiratory fitness was positively linked to the structural integrity of white matter fiber bundles in the brain in the older adults, while no such association was observed in younger adults.

All participants had MRIs taken of their brains and their cardiorespiratory (heart and lung) fitness was measured while they exercised on a treadmill.

New research conducted at the University of Kansas Medical Center indicates that older adults can improve brain function by raising their fitness level.

They caution that additional research is needed to track changes in fitness and brain structure over time, as well as clarify the impact of specific exercise programs (such as strength, aerobic or combined training) or dose of exercise (frequency, intensity, duration) on white matter microstructure.

According to the researchers these results provide evidence of a positive association between fitness and brain structure in older adults.

Researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) have proven, for the first time in history, that physical fitness in children may affect their brain structure, which in turn may have an influence on their academic performance.

«Our work aims at answering questions such as whether the brain of children with better physical fitness is different from that of children with worse physical fitness and if this affects their academic performance,» Ortega explains.

More specifically, the researchers have confirmed that physical fitness in children (especially aerobic capacity and motor ability) is associated with a greater volume of gray matter in several cortical and subcortical brain regions.

«Brains of children with a better physical fitness possess a greater volume of gray matter.»

Brain imaging shows yellow and reddish pixels representing areas where the functionality of white matter is associated with higher fitness levels.

The researchers said that the association between physical fitness and development of dementia in the study may not be causal, albeit many studies have linked physical exercise and brain health.

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Next - generation medical imaging and genomic sequencing have all helped to reveal that some foods are neuroprotective, literally shielding the brain from harm and supporting cognitive fitness over the course of a lifetime.

It may stave off dementia Among patients with mild Alzheimer's disease (age 60 and older), those with lower physical fitness levels (measured by cardiovascular tests on a treadmill) had four times more brain shrinkage when compared to normal adults than those who were more physically fit, according to a recent study from the University of Kansas School of Medicine.

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It turns out that instead of simply accepting that the bundles of nerves in your brain inevitably deteriorate with age, you can help slow — or even prevent — the process by making smart lifestyle changes and embracing brain fitness.

The increased brain activity in the highly fit older people was seen in brain regions that show typical age - related decline, which suggests that fitness can contribute to maintenance of the brain.

The degree to which these changes in memory performance and brain activity were seen in the older participants depended largely on their level of fitness.