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Slammin’ Summer Games For the Car, the Plane, or the Picnic Table Nationally renowned brain training experts Dr. Ken Gibson and Tanya Mitchell have created a free list to help parents shop for toys, games, and brain activities that will help improve learning skills in their home.(See the bottom of the page for a list ...

Turns out there’s a link between strength training and brain fitness. So much so that a recent study published in the Archives of Neurology discovered that people with more muscle strength cut their chances of developing Alzheimer’s in half! The study was conducted on a group of people with an average age of 80 years. ...

Workaholics work longer hours. That means their brains are active more hours of the day, right? That must mean they have sharper mental skills, right? Wrong. In fact, the opposite appears to be true. Research has linked longer work hours with weaker mental skills. In fact, one study of 2,214 middle-aged civil servants concluded that ...

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot point-blank in the head three months ago. This week, the Arizona congresswoman traveled to Cape Canaveral to watch her astronaut husband, Commander Mark Kelly, begin a 16-day mission aboard the space shuttle Endeavour. Rep. Giffords, who has been called “America’s best-known traumatic brain injury patient,” watched the launch of final ...

In a recent study, people who learned to juggle grew bigger brains. And if you think we’re clowning around, we’re not. German researchers took 24 non-jugglers and divided them into two groups. One group was asked to do nothing; the other group was asked to practice juggling for three months. The researchers took brain scans ...

With spring and summer wardrobes just around the corner, many of us are thinking about shedding a few pounds. Again. The truth is that, compared to keeping it off, losing weight is a piece of cake (unfortunate metaphor, we admit). In fact, 95 percent of dieters gain their weight back. Sometimes they gain even more ...

Did you know that, this year, the average American kid will spend 1,500 hours watching TV…and just 900 hours in school? Or that, this week, the average American kid will spend 1,680 minutes watching TV…and less than 40 minutes in meaningful conversation with his or her parents? All in all, the average American watches 4 ...

"By Day Three, my four-year-old needed a cartoon and she needed it bad." So writes one mom who talked (cajoled? wheedled? pressured?) her family into turning off television (and other media, too) for an entire week. Mother of two Karen Linamen says her family’s TV-free week was filled with sobering discoveries. She describes a conversation ...

Lots of great games, puzzles, and brain teasers come in cubes. Rubik’s Cube. Scruble Cube. Qwirkle Cubes. So this month, we’re featuring12 different fun, challenging, sure-to-sharpen-your-brain games…all in the shape of cubes. Nationally renowned brain training experts Ken Gibson and Tanya Mitchell have created a free list to help parents shop for toys, games, and ...

Brain Awareness Week (BAW) this March 14 – 20 is the worldwide campaign to increase awareness about the progress and benefits of brain research. One of the many global events scheduled during this 16th annual BAW is the National Brain Bee at the University of Maryland, Baltimore on March 18 and 19. The Bee is ...