Everybody has experienced working on a task, then being interrupted by the swooshing sound of the email icon popping up ... By playing a “brain training” game, called Decoder, players can ...

A battle has been brewing over whether brain training really works, leaving consumers stuck in the middle, scratching their heads. Many experts believe that brain-training programs are a waste of ...

The Brain Workshop main screen. You can also add a launcher to your Gnome or KDE panel to make starting Brain Workshop easier. For an icon for the launcher, there's a handy .png file inside the ...

Though it may not look very different from other (dubiously beneficial) brain-training games, Brain Workshop is special in that there’s a growing body of evidence to suggest that it may actually ...

Brain-training software may be a waste of time. People who played “mind-boosting” games made the same modest cognitive gains as those who spent a similar amount of time surfing the web.

which blocks the effects of oxytocin in the brain. That seemed to wipe out the observed social and antidepressant benefits of all that training. Here’s a sample of the data, showing how long the ...

It may even be possible to teach this part of your brain to operate more effectively. Waldman says neurofeedback training--essentially a rewiring of the brain--can hone your leadership chops.