Mind exercises and games

Everyone knows the classic game of checkers. Chinese checkers is slightly more complex. Two to six people play at the same time. You have to move the pieces on the star-shaped board into the opposite corner, using one-step movements or moves that jump over other pieces. This is a classic game to exercise the mind.

Hidden object games improve your attention span, differentiation, concentration, and patience. However, today, there are mysterious castles, secret islands, and numerous other fantastical scenarios where you can search for your hidden objects. Playing chess has numerous psychological benefits, and today we'll be talking about them. Read on and be surprised at the conclusions!

Wellness Healthy Habits. Nine Games to Exercise the Mind 4 minutes. Games like backgammon and mathematical puzzles can be extremely useful to boost your intellectual flexibility. Question: What question can never be answered?

Answer: Are you asleep? The Psychological Benefits of Playing Chess. Franklin, G. Neurology, psychiatry and the chess game: A narrative review. Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria. After two weeks, her memory tests demonstrated significant improvements, and a follow-up MRI showed minimal neural activity during word recall — her brain had become more efficient.

Sharon was amazed that in just two weeks she had enhanced her memory and found it easier to learn and retrieve new information. Her healthy diet and exercise routines helped Sharon shed a few unwanted pounds, and she felt more confident — both at home and at work.

These striking improvements motivated her to maintain her new healthy brain habits over the years. Our team has shown that a two-week programme combining mental and physical exercise, stress reduction and healthy diet is associated with significant effects on cognition and brain metabolism that we measured using PET positron emission tomography scans.

Unfortunately, despite compelling science that everyday behaviours can improve memory and lower dementia risk, most people find it difficult to change old habits. However, the challenge becomes much easier when people understand the link between everyday behaviour and brain health, set goals that are reasonable and receive feedback that motivates them. In collaboration with the Gallup Poll organisation, our UCLA research team evaluated responses from more than 18, people aged from 18 to 99 on behaviours that support memory.

The greater number of healthy lifestyle habits ie physical exercise, healthy diet, not smoking that people practised, the better were their memory scores. These results are consistent with other research indicating the synergistic benefits of combining healthy behaviours to lower risk for diabetes and heart disease.

In my book, 2 Weeks to a Younger Brain, Gigi Vorgan and I describe the scientific evidence that lifestyle habits matter when it comes to brain health, as well as 14 days of strategies and exercises to get readers started on a brain-healthy lifestyle they can continue for the rest of their lives. You can try it for yourself by assessing your baseline memory and checking it again after learning some of the techniques.

Below is a list of eight unrelated words. Set a stopwatch for one minute to study the words. Then spend 10 minutes doing something else. Then write down as many of the words as you can remember, for your baseline memory score:.

Learning to create visual images that represent information you want to recall later will help jump-start your memory abilities. By creating a story that links your unrelated words, your visualisations and associations will automatically boost your recall. Look at the eight words again and this time spend a minute creating a story that links them all together.

Perhaps you visualise a clown with orange hair riding a horse, or a doctor smoking a pipe and playing guitar. Use your first associations and link the images in any order you like. Now write the words again and see how much better your memory has become already. Combining visualisation with associations will make your memories more meaningful and thus more memorable. The strategy is useful for the most common age-related memory complaint of forgetting names and faces.

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