A simple brain-training program that sharpens how quickly older adults process visual information may have a surprisingly powerful long-term payoff. In a major 20-year study of adults 65 and older, ...

In a long-running RCT, older adults who completed adaptive speed-of-processing training with boosters were less likely to ...

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Adults age 65 and older who completed five to six weeks of cognitive speed training and who had follow-up sessions about one to three years later were less likely to be diagnosed with dementia, ...

Find out more about how targeted cognitive training may delay dementia diagnosis over decades in one of the longest studies ...

Speed of processing’ training reduces dementia risk by 25% up to 20 years later. An effective, non-drug intervention with ...

They were assigned to different groups, each of which took part in different brain training sessions at various times in the study. The scientists then tracked participants’ cog ...

Repeat falls are 31% less likely over a 10-year period when older adults receive speed of processing training, a new study has found. These benefits were not apparent among older people at low risk of ...

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer A new study found that brain training exercises may reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.Specifically, a speed training intervention cut dementia risk by about ...

October 12, 2012 — "Chemo brain" — the cognitive impairment often reported in cancer survivors who have received chemotherapy — can be significantly improved with computerized brain-training exercises ...