SAN FRANCISCO — Researchers report a relatively small amount of brain training is required to reduce dementia risk in the Body, Brain, Life for Cognitive Decline (BBL-CD) study. The brain training used in the study was BrainHQ from Posit Science, a commercially-available brain app. In 2020, the BBL-CD study first reported a reduction in dementia…
The hope is that a training regimen will help build up our neuroplasticity, which will not only help us perform better but, perhaps, down the line, protect individuals from developing Alzheimer’s and other dementias. It’s Day One of “brain-training” for me, and I start off by logging into BrainHQ and clicking on a simple assessment…
SAN FRANCISCO — A new study suggests that cognitive decline is neither inevitable, nor irreversible — even for people at greatest risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers at Stanford University and the University of Rochester found that visual speed and attention exercises in the BrainHQ app from Posit Science drove not only gains in standard neuropsychological measures…
(Washington DC) – Jeff Zimman, Co-Founder of Posit Science, which makes the brain training app BrainHQ, will address the annual What’s Next Longevity Innovation Summit in Washington DC (held this year virtually December 1-2) regarding steps to improve social equity in dementia prevention and care. Zimman will share data from two studies: (1) the ACTIVE…
Some new BrainHQ study related news. Researchers at the University South Florida in Tampa have received a $44.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the Preventing Alzheimer’s with Cognitive Training (PACT) Study. This new grant furthers prior research, published as findings of the ACTIVE Study in 2017, that showed a small…
(SAN FRANCISCO) — Researchers at the University South Florida in Tampa have received a $44.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the Preventing Alzheimer’s with Cognitive Training (PACT) Study. This new grant furthers prior research, published as findings of the ACTIVE Study in 2017, that showed a small amount of cognitive…
An Australian study has found that an eight-week program combining dementia education with lifestyle changes to diet, physical activity and cognitive engagement significantly improved cognitive performance and reduced the risk of Alzheimer’s disease among seniors with pre-dementia conditions. The study used the BrainHQ app from Posit Science for its brain exercise component. Published in the…
Baby Boomers grew up in the 1950s-70s being told that if their grandma was a little forgetful, she was probably getting “senile.” As those Boomers have become grandparents themselves in recent years, science is revealing a more complex explanation for why seniors can’t always remember someone’s name or where they left the car keys. Dementia,…
A newly published imaging study in NeuroImage from researchers at the University of Rochester has shown that brain training drove improvements in several brain systems that typically degenerate on the path toward dementia among patients with a pre-dementia diagnosis. The brain training used in the study was a set of exercises from BrainHQ, the brain…
(SAN FRANCISCO) — A new study — made available online in advance of print by The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and conducted by a team from Emory University — found that brain training could be helpful in patients coping with heart failure. The brain exercises used in the study were from Posit Science, the…