Brain Training
Brain Health Blog Working memory training changes the brain By Gregory Kellett, a cognitive neuroscience researcher at SFSU and science writer for Lumos Labs . It seems that working memory training may work by physically altering the brain. Stockholm Brain Institute researchers put healthy people through working memory exercises for 35 minutes per day over a period of 5 weeks. Changes in dopamine receptor density were measured with positron emission tomography (PET) before and after the training. Following working memory training, they found: An increase in the density of dopamine receptors. An improvement in working memory performance. The neurotransmitter dopamine plays a central role in working memory. This research implies that improving working memory performance through several weeks of training might work by increasing the quantity of dopamine receptors in the brain Time to try a little Brain Training....! Reference:www.lu