Sandy at the Mouse Trap blog has a good post on Cog­ni­tive pro­grams that keep you fit, men­tion­ing 2 papers recently pub­lished on 2 sep­a­rate inter­ven­tions for the elderly. One, Posit Science’s for train­ing of audi­tory processing-you can find the link to the paper in Sandy’s post.

For the other, you can read an arti­cle linked in Sandy’s post, and here the paper A ran­dom­ized pilot study to assess the effi­cacy of an inter­ac­tive, mul­ti­me­dia tool of cog­ni­tive stim­u­la­tion in Alzheimer’s dis­ease, pub­lished in the Jour­nal of Neu­rol­ogy, Neu­ro­surgery and Psy­chi­a­try, by researchers from the Fun­dació ACE, Insti­tut Català de Neurociències Apli­cades in Barcelona, Spain, and the Uni­ver­sity of Pitts­burgh School of Medicine.

A quote from the arti­cle: “While Alzheimer’s dis­ease is a pro­gres­sive degen­er­a­tive con­di­tion, stud­ies have shown that in the early stages, the brain is still able to learn and change. This indi­cates that increas­ing brain activ­ity, espe­cially in regards to mem­ory and cog­ni­tion, may help stave off cog­ni­tive loss in peo­ple with Alzheimer’s,” said James T. Becker, Ph.D., pro­fes­sor of psy­chi­a­try, neu­rol­ogy and psy­chol­ogy at the Uni­ver­sity of Pitts­burgh, and a co-author on the study.

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