According to her TV advert, after playing Brain Training on the Nintendo DS, Nicole Kidman, 39, has a brain age to match her strangely smooth-skinned face age: 24. The game on the handheld console, which includes memory and reaction time tests, was developed by the Japanese neuroscientist Ryuta Kawashima and has sold 10m copies worldwide, spawning a craze for "brain training" that the New York Times estimated was worth more than...
Research finds brain link for words, music ability
Fresno Bee
Fresno Bee
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Research finds brain link for words, music ability; finding may lead to better stroke care
Breitbart
Breitbart
Brain Injury Awareness Month 2010-Brain Facts
The Examiner
The Examiner
Brain Injury Awareness Month 2010 Brain Facts: A Primer on the Brain and Nervous System [FREE downloadable PDF!] [Contains many items that are useful for patients, teachers, medical professionals]....
IP excavation in knowledge driven companies
Merinews
Merinews
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY plays a very important role in providing business and competitive advantage to a knowledge driven company. Today, as a company's strength is assessed based on value of its intellectual property...
West Brain, East Brain
Khaleej Times
Khaleej Times
By now, it should come as no surprise when scientists discover yet another case of experience changing the brain. From the sensory information we absorb to the movements we make, our lives leave footprints on the bumps...
Brain Games for Seniors: Dakim Offers 1st Brain Fitness Software Aimed at Fighting Dementia
PR Newswire
PR Newswire
Same Activities as #1 Brain Training System in Senior Living Communities...
Brain has areas devoted to learning nouns, verbs
The Times of India
The Times of India
LONDON: Scientists have recently shown that the part of the brain that gets activated when a person learns a new noun is different from the part used when a verb is learned....
Sexy science: How to spot a genius
The Times
The Times
What makes a mathematical genius? Is there anything that is architecturally distinct about the brain of those who have extreme talent compared with the average numerate individual? Was Isaac Newton's brain hardwired for...
UC Berkeley's findings: Hour nap restores the brain's learning capacity
The Examiner
The Examiner
UC Berkeley's findings that a one hour nap markedly boosts the brain's learning capacity and restores the brain's power to take in new information is compared to your email box. When the brain is...
Learning keeps brain healthy
Khaleej Times
Khaleej Times
Learning keeps the brain healthy and helps in limiting the debilitating effects of ageing on memory and the mind, a new study confirms. UC Irvine neurobiologists are providing the first visual evidence that learning...
Transcendental Meditation activates brain's natural ground state
Newstrack India
Newstrack India
Washington, Mar 5 (ANI): Transcendental Meditation technique has the ability to activate the default mode network-a suggested natural "ground state" of the brain, according to a new EEG study. The...
Medical brain scans show power of love
The Oklahoman
The Oklahoman
Most people associate Valentine's Day with roses, boxes of chocolates and candlelit dinners. But when researchers used sophisticated imaging technology to look at the brains of people who'd recently fallen in love,...
Mild traumatic brain injury may not be so mild after all
DNA India
DNA India
WASHINGTON: Overlooking mild traumatic brain injury may amount to ignoring a major health issue, researchers have warned. Douglas Smith, director of the Center for Brain...

