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 way we live our lives now is like running marathons,” said Dr. Leslie Sherlin, a neuroscientist and chief science officer of Neurotopia, a company that provides brain training to athletes.

“Future training, nutrition and competition strategies need to consider the brain as much as the muscle,” he concludes. Marcora’s research has subsequently focused on improving performance ...

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.

It may be possible to stave off depression before it even appears using brain-training software so simplistic in its design that even the psychologist testing it once bet it wouldn’t work.

A Swiss-American team reports in a leading scientific journal how they used a computer based brain-training method to improve general problem-solving ability. Many psychologists had thought the ...