Tuesday 26 July 2016

Brain Training: Software-Based Dementia Intervention or Clicky Garbage?

Brain Training: Software-Based Dementia Intervention or Clicky Garbage?

Training your brain sure sounds great. It’s like a personal trainer for me!, your brain might say to you. But here’s the thing: You use your brain in everything you do, so products that purport to specifically train it may be what is scientifically called “neurobullshit,” the kind of thing that might hype a best-selling game but has little empirical rigor. Yet it's a $6-billion industry.

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