A study released recently by Duke Medical Center declares a depressing prognosis for those of us reaching the golden years. The study found that more than 1 out 3 people over the age of 70 have some degree of memory loss. While some of this group had Alzheimer’s, the majority had a degree of memory […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ayumu, a 7-year old chimp living in a lab at Kyoto University, was in the news the last month for his remarkable cognitive performance. In a test of working memory, Ayumu and 5 other chimpanzees were able to outclass college students. Watch him go at it here.
Have you got what it takes to outsmart […]
By contributing author Paul Li, a neuroscience graduate student at Columbia.
Hopefully some of us have or will set some realistic and flexible New Year’s resolutions for 2008. Of course a good resolution doesn’t necessarily translate to reality, as they tend to fade from our everyday recollection. To remind you of your goals throughout the […]
Recent activities in the Lumosity brain training program:
We just released the latest memory exercise, titled Moneycomb, in which you must remember the location of coins in a honeycomb layout. This exercise targets attention and spatial working memory, and is now available from the trainer.
We also just introduced “Lumosity Points”, which are awarded for completing games […]
Adults with memory problems are still able to improve their cognitive performance with cognitive training, according to research published this week in the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.
Though adults with memory problems did not improve their impaired ability to memorize new material, they still had the capacity to improve in other areas. Specifically, the […]