Brain Training Articles & News

In 2001, the Parents as Teachers National Center in Missouri declared November 8 as National Parents as Teachers Day. The day holds new meaning under a global pandemic, which has left many parents in unfamiliar territory, teaching their children full or part times—sometimes while juggling their own need to work. For parents who are noticing ...

If you want the 411 on brain foods, there’s perhaps no better sources than the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. As the group explained in an October 2018 article on its website, “The best menu for supporting memory and brain function encourages good blood flow to the brain—much like what you’d eat to nourish and ...

Did you know that experts are predicting that students will likely lose twice as much during the Summer Slide due to Covid-19 school closures? It’s true. Normally, the Summer Slide–significant learning losses over school recess–is cause for concern on its own. But now we’re facing a magnified educational crisis because of the effects of the ...

If you or someone you love has suffered a concussion or traumatic brain injury (TBI), you may know that difficulty sleeping can be a significant symptom. But a new study funded by the United States military has found that a blue light can help heal mild TBI simply by allowing them to get a good ...

Most kinds of nuts are good for your brain and body, but new research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has singled out walnuts for their ability to help slow cognitive decline in at-risk elderly. The study, which came from team in California and Spain, found that walnuts appear to be particular effective ...

Does that language you play a role in how people with dementia communicate? New research seems to indicate that it does. A small study from a team at the University of California looked at dementia-related language problems in English-speaking and Italian-speaking patients. They found that while the English speakers had difficulty pronouncing words, the Italian ...

The short answer is "no."  A German research tea look at the brains of 330 older adults and found that the size of the hippocampus is only beneficial to people who also have more white-matter circuitry to link it to the rest of the brain. They found that the volume of the hippocampus doesn’t always ...

A recent article in The New England Journal of Medicine reports that intermittent fasting may benefits the brain by decreasing blood pressure, resting heart rates and blood lipid levels. More specifically, intermittent fasting “augments associative, spatial and working memory in animals, as well as verbal memory in adults.” To find out more about how fasting ...

Next time your kid picks up a comic book, don’t be so quick to assume it’s a waste of time. Because comics use both images, words, sound effects, color, spatial layouts, panel composition and more, researchers say these multimodal cues can stimulate similar processes to the human brain mapping the world around it. Thanks to ...

Need some extra motivation to whittle that waistline? A study out of Iowa State University found that fluid intelligence tended to decrease with age in people with more abdominal fat. The study, which was done on thousands of middle-aged and older people, found that more body fat and less muscle mass negatively affected changes in ...