What Should I look For In An Online Brain Training Program?

The best online brain training programs should include:

• assessment
• a variety of challenging activities using different cognitive skills
• ways to encourage regular practice
• offer feedback

Brain training programs that are fun and useful to your every day life are the most likely to succeed in keeping you interested and keep you coming back for regular practice. Every day skills include:

• visual skills
• auditory or listening skills
• decision making skills
• problem solving skills
• short term memory
• working memory
• location memory
• planning
• time estimation
• divided attention (helps you keep focus even with distractions!)
• hand eye co-ordination

These are all skills that are useful in your daily life.

Will following a program like this this prevent Alzheimers?

Unfortunately there are no guarantees, so the short answer is NO, a brain training program will not prevent Alzheimers.

However, studies show mentally active people have lower rates and later onset of diseases such as Alzheimer's.

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