Can Brain Training with video games prevent a decline in your brain function?
New video games released onto the consumer market have raised interest in mental exercises. Games like Nintendo’s ‘Brain Age’ promise to build your mental alertness and increase your brain’s acuity by completing exercises intended to sustain and increase cognitive function. The premise is that your brain requires exercise just as your body does. And they further contend that the brain, as with the body, suffers a decline with age that can be slowed by exercise.
How accurate are these claims? Researchers are claiming that there may just be evidence that supports the brain training assertion. Researchers suggest that exercising the mental muscles may prompt the brain to generate new neurons. The muscles the experts are suggesting can benefit from exercise are memory, visual/spatial, attention, motor coordination, planning, problem solving, and stress. The claim is with exercise, proper nutrition, stress management, and brain exercises you can slow the decline of your brain functions.
