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Fun Way to Increase Your Brain Fitness

Although physical exercise helps improve your brain health, brain exercises are a great tool for developing or maintaining a mind like a steel-trap.

Lumosity.com is a new site offering a complete brain fitness program. Designed by neuroscientists, their program has been scientifically demonstrated to improve your memory, attention and processing speed.

The program consists of 30 sessions, each session consisting of three to five games, which automatically adapts to the difficulty best suited for your current abilities, getting more difficult as you go along. You can track your advancement and improvement as you go through the program.

Users of the program claim they have experienced clearer and quicker thinking, better memory retention of names and numbers, increased alertness, elevated mood and better concentration while on task.

For example, one game called Birdwatching is designed to improve your peripheral vision. This is an important ability in many everyday activities, such as driving, since having good peripheral vision is tied to a reduced likelihood of having an accident.

Lumosity.com


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mmc88121
[ Joined on 11/06 ] [ Posted on June 6, 2007 ]
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Russ, you forgot to mention that it is fun also, The free is just at the beginning if you read the fine print.

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Katy B
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I wonder if my infared machine could make me smarter?  Right now i have a mind like a steel sieve.
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Magnolia
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  Mercola

Katy B, I love when you make me laugh!!!

  
  
mscanlon
[ Joined on 06/07 ] [ Posted on June 7, 2007 ]
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I'm a founder of Lumos Labs (the company that created Lumosity); thanks for the great write-up.

To clarify, Lumos Labs and Posit Science both develop evidence-based cognitive fitness programs, but otherwise I think you'll find that the programs are considerably different. Each was designed for a distinct audience and set of cognitive abilities. I won't describe all the differences because my bias might show, but I strongly encourage anyone interested in improving cognitive ability to compare the programs side-by-side in order to decide which is right for you.

Lumosity is currently free because it is still in beta, but we do plan to eventually begin charging to access the program.
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JasonF
[ Joined on 06/07 ] [ Posted on June 6, 2007 ]
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I cant say I have looked into Lumosity's product all the much.  I have just skimmed the website and the parent site.  It seems to me that the stuff they are doing is very similar to Posit Science's program.    Almost seems like a copy, but like I said I haven't used the product. 

I would look into Posit Science if your interested in healthy aging.  I got my parents using Posit Science's program and it is/was the best Christmas(2005) gift I have ever given.  They are sharper, clearer, more outgoing, more social.  I cant thank Posit Science enough.  They use the program every year and they just get stronger.  Its awesome.

-Jason
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C Ed Wright
[ Joined on 06/07 ] [ Posted on July 30, 2007 ]
       
   
 
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It's OT, but I think the government may be involved in this Vital Votes thing -- someone keeps fixing it until it's broken.

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curious7
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Careful, we may reawaken the notion we are actually free in this nation.

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C Ed Wright
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  Mercola

Free in this nation?  Wherever did you get a silly idea like that?

I heard that someone showed the text of our Bill Of Rights to some university students, who were told it was a new law being considered, and they all said it would never get passed into law because it was too radical.

(But then again, Jay Leno found some university students while "Jay-Walking" who sincerely believed that Rolling Blackouts literally roll downhill -- from north to south because north is above, therefor higher, than south.)

Wasn't it Honest Abe who said that government of, by and for the politicians shall not perish from this earth?  This is the Land of the Freebie and the Home of the Crave, and let's not forget it.

  
  
Russ Bianchi
[ Joined on 09/06 ] [ Posted on June 6, 2007 ]
       
   
 
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WHAT?!  A free and efficient information preventative model without BIG Pharma drugs with harmful and deadly side-effects?  Quick call the FTC or FCC to shut it down!

;-)

Uncle Russ
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