Brain Age

Brain Age
Give your brain the workout it needs
Exercise is the key to good health both for body and mind there's a way to make mental exercise fun, even competitive. Just minutes a day, that's allit takes to challenge your mind.

Everyone knows you can prevent muscle loss with exercise, and use such activities to improve your body over time. And the same could be said for your brain. Thedesign of Brain Age is based on the premise that cognitive exercise can improve blood flow to the brain. All it takes is as little as a few minutes of play time a day. For everyone who spends all theirplay time at the gym working out the major muscle groups, don't forget - your brain is like a muscle, too. And it craves exercise.
The prefrontal cortex is like the control tower of your brain-itdetermines how you use stored knowledge in practical situations. That means that your "practical intelligence," or ability to apply stored knowledge to your everyday reality, depends upon how well yourprefrontal cortex functions.
Both hemispheres of the human brain are divided into four parts: the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe, and occipital lobe. The prefrontal region (which makes upa large part of the frontal lobe) is the foundation of creativity, memory, communication, and self-control. Its role could be described as the "brain within a brain."
Research has shown that readingout loud and performing calculations quickly are effective for training your brain. The diagrams below and to the right show functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the blood flow in a brain.The red and yellow areas show which parts of the brain are working. Red indicates the hardest working portions of the brain, while yellow displays slightly less activity.
The best time to do thistraining is in the morning, when your brain is at its peak level of activity. Take a moment from your free time each day to complete your training.

Memory
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