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Category Archives: Brain Health

Brain training in the news

Brain fitness and cognitive training articles appearing in the past few weeks have prominently featured Lumos Labs. Here are a few of our favorite:
Reader’s Digest: HealthSmart
Dominic Cadden writes about his experience completing the Lumosity training program.
Fox News: Website of the Day
Check out Doug Delony’s broadcast of Lumosity: “Games for a happy Friday”
New Scientist
Graham [...]

The Color Blind Advantage

I used to think I had Ted Williams-caliber vision (a doctor said that, and it was memorable for a 10-yr old aspiring baseball player). When dreams of baseball stardom started to seem less likely, I began to think I’d make a good pilot. Though I’ve long since chosen a different direction, I still took pride [...]

Go Fish!

By Lumos Labs Science Associate Paul Li, MS Neuroscience.

One of the top brain foods you can have in your diet is fish. This brain food, also in pill form, is a good source of omega-3 fatty acids that the body alone cannot produce. Recently, scientists from UCLA further discovered that omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid, [...]

May I Have Your Attention, Please?

By guest expert Dr. Cynthia Green, Ph.D., a nationally recognized expert in brain health and president of Memory Arts LLC.

I was once asked if there is one thing that everyone could do to improve memory. Luckily, there was an easy answer. If we only paid better attention to things that we want to [...]

Brain Health 101: You Heard What?

By guest expert Dr. Cynthia Green, Ph.D., a nationally recognized expert in brain health and president of Memory Arts LLC.

“Why am I having trouble remembering?” “Is there a special diet to boost my brain power?” We asked and you delivered. Thanks to everyone who wrote in with questions for the new “Ask [...]

Ask the Expert: Introducing Dr. Cynthia Green

Got a question about memory or brain fitness? Cynthia Green, Ph.D., the nationally recognized expert on developing better memory and brain health, is here to help with the new Ask the Expert column.
Dr. Green began the Memory Enhancement Program at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where she has been a faculty member since 1990. [...]

Working memory and neurogenesis at the Bay Area Neuroscience Gathering

By Lumos Labs Science Associate Paul Li, MS Neuroscience.
Last Friday afternoon, UCSF held their annual Bay Area Neuroscience Gathering (BANG) where local grad students and neuroscientists showcased their research posters to the Bay Area neuroscience community. Universities included UCSF, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, San Francisco State and Stanford. Lumos Labs presented an investigation into [...]

Memory Benefits of Power Napping

By contributing author Paul Li, a neuroscience graduate student at Columbia.
Whenever I am studying for an exam I inevitably take short naps in between my studies - just as long as I have a study-buddy or an alarm clock to wake me up. It never occurred to me that the nap might be beneficial beyond [...]

Fun stuff that’s good for your brain #7: Humor and Laughter

By contributing author Aimee Fountain, who splits her time between Lumos Labs and teaching at American River College.

So this man walks into a bar…
You’ll get unique – and potentially beneficial – activity in your brain if you think something is funny…and maybe even if you don’t, as long as you laugh. While extensive research has [...]

Brain games for your family: The ’smartest gift’