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Sudoku Puzzles All you need to solve these number games is logic and a pencil. But since brain training requires both persistence and novelty, be sure to keep at it and also vary your regimen...
...Brain Age Games Patients at Duke's mental-fitness lab give high marks to these $20 game sets for Nintendo DS but find their improvement quickly plateaus in such activities as unscrambling letters or counting currency...
Doraiswamy is intrigued by many of the new brain-training products but dismayed by the lack of research on their effectiveness. "Manufacturers are putting the cart before the horse," he says. Ultimately, he wants his lab to be a testing ground for claims of enhanced cognition, a kind of Consumer Reports for brain-fitness products...
That helps explain why some consumers are hedging their bets by hopping on a NeuroActive Brain Bike. The $4,000 machine debuted a year ago at Lady of America fitness centers, where members - who tend to be older than the average gym rat - quickly fell for the cardio-cognitive combo. "Instead of mindlessly watching TV" while pedaling, says Gerry Weber, CEO of Lady of America, which has 300 women's-fitness franchises worldwide, "they're able to exercise their brain at the same time...
Perhaps what's most important to remember amid the thicket of memory games, iPhone apps and other newfangled gadgetry is to just do something - preferably something novel - that engages your brain. Oh, and make sure you enjoy it too. "If you hate going to the gym," notes Bill Thies, chief medical officer for the Alzheimer's Association, "you're not going to go there on a regular basis...