cognitive and brain fitness

BBC study of 11,430 people concludes brain training games do not produce skills more transferrable to improving cognitive fitness than web-browing.

"If a technology ever emerges to cure the inconvenience of getting old, it’ll catch on in Japan, where a gadget-crazy population is aging rapidly."

References a Johns Hopkins study on how tutoring not only helps kids, but boosts executive function aspects of the brain.

Study of women age 65-75 indicates improvement in executive function skills after one year of strength training.

Study based on game that quantified concerns of adult children and seniors about driving.

More (Fox News) on study that Internet use combats depression in older people.