BrainHQ Training Benefits Last 10 Years

San Francisco, California - A new study shows that certain types of brain training—including one of the exercises in BrainHQ from Posit Science—can drive cognitive benefits that last 10 years. The study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, is the first to show such long-lasting results from brain training, and confirms that the right kind of brain training can cause significant everyday improvements in daily activities.

10 years later, scientists re-tested participants. 71% of those in the speed-of-processing group who used Double Decision retained improvements, as did a comparable percentage in the reasoning group. Those in the memory training group did not. These results underscore the fact that not all brain training is created equal: specific types of exercises are more effective than others.

Additionally, participants in all three of the training groups self-reported a better ability to perform everyday tasks—such as shopping and handling finances—compared to those in the no-training control.

Scientists are enthusiastic about the potential public health impact of these results. As study coauthor Sharon Tennstedt, vice president of New England Research Institutes, told theBoston Globe, “If these training interventions can have that kind of effect on preserving cognitive function, then there is potential for either delaying dementia or kind of attenuating it.” And that, the report suggests, could reduce the number of people affected by functional impairment by 38% by 2050.

“Some people still ask if brain training really works,” notes Posit Science CEO Henry Mahncke. “This study adds to the dozens of published results that show that when it comes to BrainHQ, the science is in: it drives significant, long-lasting, real-world improvements in cognitive function. Every person who wants to get sharp or stay should make BrainHQ a part of their overall brain-healthy lifestyle.”

Double Decision, the exercise in the ACTIVE study, is available as part of the Attention suite on www.dynamicbrain.brainhq.com. It’s also available in the BrainHQ iPad app.

The $33.7 million ACTIVE study was paid for by the National Institutes of Health. No one from Posit Science was involved in the study.

About Posit Science
Posit Science is the leading provider of clinically proven brain fitness training. Its exercises, available online in Canada by DynamicBrain Inc. in English at www.dynamicbrain.brainhq.com, and in French at www.dynamicbrain-fr.brainhq.com, have been shown to significantly improve brain speed, attention, memory and numerous standard measures of quality of life in multiple studies published in more than 60 peer-reviewed articles in leading science and medical journals. Three public television documentaries as well as numerous stories on news programs, in national magazines, and in major newspapers have featured Posit Science’s work. The company’s science team is led by renowned neuroscientist Michael Merzenich, PhD.

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