Links to material on mental agility and brain health.
- Keeping your brain fit, by a USA Memory Champion
- Mind games: a mental workout to help keep your brain sharp
- A brain scientist who studies Alzheimer’s explains how she stays mentally fit
- Online brain training ‘helps older adults with everyday tasks’
- Brain training improves memory and performance of everyday tasks in older people
- a gold-standard study on brain training
- Published research:The Effect of an Online Cognitive Training Package in Healthy Older Adults: An Online Randomized Controlled Trial
- Brain stimulation at any age may slow memory decline
- Published research:
Life-span cognitive activity, neuropathology burden, and cognitive aging - Gaming improves multitasking skills
- Virtual Racing Fuels Aging Brains — 5 Video Game Surprises
- Published research:
Video game training enhances cognitive control in older adults
- Use It or Lose It: Keeping Brain Active May Help Ward Off Alzheimer’s
- Published research:
Association of Lifetime Cognitive Engagement and Low β-Amyloid Deposition - Your brain vs technology: How our wired world is changing the way we think
- The Secret to Learning a Foreign Language as an Adult
- Eight weeks to a better brain
- Method of loci [Memory Palaces] – Wikipedia
- Conditions for Maximizing Effects of 90 Days of Brain Training
- Mental Capital and Wellbeing
- Long-term Effects of Cognitive Training: The ACTIVE Trial
- Increase your memory capacity with mental exercise
- Brain Workouts May Tone Memory
- Mental Exercise – Fitness for Our Brain
- Mental Exercise Makes Brains ‘Younger’
- Mindfulness training busts stress
- Fuzzy brain? Improve your attention span
- Mental Aerobics: Exercises for the Mind in Later Life
- Seniors Experience Long-term Benefits from Mental Exercise
- Study finds Internet searches boost brain
- Get Smarter: 12 Hacks That Will Amp Up Your Brainpower
- Memory Training Shown to Turn Up Brainpower
- Man’s rare ability may unlock secret of memory
- Why can’t I remember that thing, person, task?
- Resilience: How to train a tougher mind
- Chocolate component reverses memory loss in older people, claims study
- A new (old) way to treat mental illness
- For a Better Brain, Learn Another Language
- How to keep your brain healthy
- Brain Age: Concentration Training Tests Your Brain, and Patience
- The Power of Concentration
- To improve memory, exercise your brain
- Duolingo is a Free, Crowdsourced Language Learning App (Video)
- Electrical Pulses to Scalp May Boost Memory: Study
- Playing games or doing puzzles may help stave off Alzheimer’s, study finds
- Striking a Nerve: Brain Exercise and Cognitive Decline
- The link between memory and stress
- Do Brain Workouts Work? Science Isn’t Sure
- An Antidote for Mindlessness
- Playing Starcraft 2 Might Make You Smarter
- Real-Time Strategy Game Training: Emergence of a Cognitive Flexibility Trait
- Cognitive Training Helps Seniors Keep Mental Snap and Crackle
- Daphne Bavelier: Your brain on video games (Video)
- Active brain ‘keeps dementia at bay’
- Lifelong Reading, Hobbies Might Help Stave Off Dementia
- Beneficial effects of reading aloud and solving simple arithmetic calculations (learning therapy) on a wide range of cognitive functions in the healthy elderly: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
- Youthful Aging — The Science Behind Brain Fitness
- The Future of Cognitive Remediation Training in Older Adults
- Train Your Brain to Be Positive and Feel Happier: the Art of Self-Compassion
- Brain Calisthenics Help Break Down Abstract Ideas, Researchers Say
- Being bilingual ‘boosts brain power’
- Meet Duolingo, Google’s Next Acquisition Target; Learn A Language, Help The Web
- Adult Learning – Neuroscience – How to Train the Aging Brain
- Secrets of a Mind-Gamer
- On the Brain: Thinking more creatively
- Mind – Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits
- Cognitive Stimulation Programs in Healthy Elderly: A Review-PDF in Blog
- Reading and solving arithmetic problems improves cognitive functions of normal aged people: a randomized controlled study
- Effects of Cognitive, Motor, and Karate Training on Cognitive Functioning and Emotional Well-Being of Elderly People
- Exploring Interventions to Reduce Cognitive Decline in Aging
- What’s Cooking? — Cognitive Training of Executive Function in the Elderly
- Neural Correlates of Changes in a Visual Search Task due to Cognitive Training in Seniors
- Cognitively Stimulating Activities: Effects on Cognition across Four Studies with up to 21 Years of Longitudinal Data
- ACTIVE: A Cognitive Intervention Trial to Promote Independence in Older Adults
- Exercising the Brain to Avoid Cognitive Decline: Cognitive Training Approaches to Protect Brain Health in Later Life: Case’control Studies
- Tips From Other Journals – American Family Physician
- Computerized Cognitive Training with Older Adults: A Systematic Review
- The effects of multi-domain versus single-domain cognitive training in non-demented older people: a randomized controlled trial
- BiLingualism strengthens the Brain
- Brain changes seen in cabbies who take ‘The Knowledge’
- Brain Calisthenics Help Break Down Abstract Ideas, Researchers Say
- Mentally Challenging Jobs May Help Keep the Mind Sharp
- Mental Retirement
- Don’t leave learning to the young. Older brains can grow, too.
- Does cognitive training work? (For Whom? For What?)
- Brain gym helps elderly drivers avoid crashes
- Cognitive Training Decreases Motor Vehicle Collision Involvement Among Older Drivers
- Cognitive Speed of Processing Training Delays Driving Cessation
- Cognitive Training Decreases Motor Vehicle Collision Involvement Among Older Drivers
- Train Your Brain to Be Positive and Feel Happier: the Art of Self-Compassion
- On the Brain: Thinking more creatively
- To Boost Your Memory, Take a Break
- Process of Visual Memorization
- Adult Learning – Neuroscience – How to Train the Aging Brain
- Spurred by love and fear, memory champ aims to inspire
- Secrets of a Mind-Gamer
- Keep your brain smart