Brain training and brain fitness: how to cultivate brain fitness

Feb. 19, 2012 - PRLog -- Brain training facilitates brain fitness, and playing brain games can make a difference in the fitness of one's brain, reports http://www.amareway.org/

Brain fitness programs are based on neurogenesis and neuroplasticity, meaning brains can grow new neurons and can change the way they are wired. Neurons that fire together, wire together, and there are neuroscience games and brainwave entrainment to train brains, and they are reviewed on http://www.amareway.org/holisticliving/02/brain-training-how-to-train-for-brain-fitness/

For these reasons, brain fitness can be assessed by measuring neurogenesis, connections of synapses and dendrites between neurons, behavioral performances (cognitive reserve, improved memory, attention, concentration, executive functions, decision-making, mental flexibility, etc.).

Activities promoting brain fitness include activities that require to use all senses, break routines and engage in novel experiences. Activities that involve planning ahead, like chess, stimulate the Frontal lobe area of the brain. Activities like ballroom dance and basketball, train short range spatial skills, used when one walks through a short limited space, like the interior of a house. Activities like learning a new language or painting require the coordinating of multiple regions of the brain.

More information and news about brain training are offered on: http://www.amareway.org/holisticliving/02/brain-training-...

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Brain training facilitates brain fitness and brain flexibility, which are the capacity of a person to meet the cognitive demands of life. Brain fitness can be cultivated in various ways, http://www.amareway.org/holisticliving/02/brain-training-how-to-train-for-brain-fitness/ shows some of them.