Gaming Your Way To An Agile, Sharper Brain

It all finally boils down to the much-believed saying that goes ‘If you don’t use it, you lose it’. This particularly hold true in case of one’s mental muscle.

End users are perennially trying to get their paws on software and state-of-the-art games that would prove challenging to their synapses.

Those interested in shelling out some money to get their hands on some form of mental workout gear, then below stated are some of the popular options:

• Brain Fitness Program – This commercially available software has the backing of printed research, indicating that it improves cognitive functioning. The users don headphones and employ a computer for performing aural exercises. For instance, identification of whether the tone has a soaring or dipping pitch and differentiating in-between two analogous syllables, for example fine-adjustment. Those who have developed this software vouch for its efficacy in repairing the brain machinery so that it would transmit information with greater accuracy from one location to another and hence enhance overall cognitive performance.

Costing – Single user – $395, Two users – $495

• MindFit – Personal computing software that offers exercises for enhancing limited, short-span memory, improving response time, motor skills, hand and eye coordination and has several more features. This software is known to keep tabs of the player’s performance over a span of time.

Costing – The download version costs 139$ or the CD intended for single user would come up to $ 149. For adding in further users, 99dollars would be needed for each new user added.

• Brain Age – The game draws inspiration from the investigative works of a Japan-based neuroscientist. The game is intended for the hand-held DS system from Nintendo comprising of an assortment of fifteen varied kinds of puzzles and exercises. There are additional hundred Sudoku puzzles also included along with the game.

Costing – The game costs about twenty dollars.

• Big Brain Academy – This game for Wii or hand-held systems of Nintendo, nearly 8 users could participate in a multitude of interesting activities ranging from recollection to arithmetic problems to one needing to match particular shapes with the corresponding correct picture.

Costing – The game costs about fifty dollars for the Wii system. The hand-held DS system would cost nearly twenty dollars.

• My Brain Trainer – Nearly thirty-nine exercises are offered in the website.

Costing – Annual charge of about thirty dollars.

• Radica Brain Games and Brain Games 2 – The hand-held gaming feature from Mattel has exercises that prompt one into completing certain series, searching for concealed words, resolving arithmetic questions and a host of interesting brain teasers.

Costing – The game as well as the unit would cost about twenty dollars.

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