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Brain Training Report – Witek – Stage 3, Session 96

Witek — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:58:20 +0000

Stage: 3

Session number: 96

Average n-back: 6.95

One word: MENSA. Just opened the envelope and still can’t believe it…

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Make Your Brain Smarter – FHM Australia

martin — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:17:47 +0000

FHM (For Him Magazine) this week published a piece called “Make Your Brain Smarter” featuring MindSparke. The piece included some erudite observations from yours truly promptly followed by comments refuting the idea that neurogenesis stimulated by brain training has been observed in humans. This according to Associate Professor Sharon Naismith, senior clinical neuropsychologist at the Brain and Mind Research Institute.

I know that Australia is a good way off (sometimes our installation disks take a couple of weeks to get there) but Fred Gage showed neurogenesis in humans over ten years ago and a great deal of good science since has shown that what we do with our brains has an impact on how they grow and change. Last year scientists at the Karolinska Institutet showed that intensive working memory training has a visible impact on the brain… Working Memory Training Changes The Brain

FHM - Make Your Brain Smarter

Here’s the FHM piece for those interested:

Make Your Brain Smarter

http://fhm.com.au/make-your-brain-smarter.htm

Latest Brain Training Success Story

martin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:47:04 +0000

Anne, MD and Harvard medical school grad, successfully gained entry to Mensa after training with Brain Fitness Pro.

“I took a Mensa home test prior to the training and didn’t pass…. Then I did the full training course, took the actual Mensa test, and got in! I’m very satisfied with the training.”

Do you have a brain training success story to share? Please let me know at martin@mindsparke.com