Your brain structure may be at fault The next time you get your butt handed to you by a "Nintendo-hard" game, don't … Matt Ford – Jan 24, 2010 2:00 pm | 42 ...

Brain games claim to boost memory, but do they truly work? ... They create measurable changes in brain structure and function that support cognitive resilience.

The rise of brain games. Though the brain-training software industry is new, the field is growing. Lumosity, one of the largest such Web-based companies, had 35 million registered users at the ...

Video gamers: Size of brain structures predicts success Date: January 21, 2010 Source: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Summary: Researchers can predict your performance on a video game ...

Researchers can predict your performance on a video game simply by measuring the volume of specific structures in your brain, a multi-institutional team reports this week.

HOW MIND GAMES BOOST BRAIN HEALTH. A major benefit of playing mind games is the potential to boost memory capacity. Both working memory and long-term potentiation can see significant growth.

Researchers can predict video game performance based on the size of a specific brain region, called the striatum, a new study says. Here, an image of the MRI scans analyzed in this study.

More than 8,600 people aged 18 to 60 were asked to play online brain games designed by the researchers to improve their ... "Fitness changes the building blocks of the brain's structure," he said.

Play those brain games all you want, but don’t expect them to make you any smarter. Educators, too, need to tread carefully into the fields of brain-based research.

Scientists have collected and summarized studies looking at how video games can shape our brains and behavior. Research to date suggests that playing video games can change the brain regions ...