Brain Age: Train Your Brain

 NY Various versions of Nintendogs have sold 22.2 million units worldwide, followed by New Super Mario Bros. and Personal Trainer: Cooking at 18.4 million each, Brain Training (aka Brain Age) at 17.4 million, and Pokemon Diamond/Pearl at 16.8 million. ...

 TX The Brain Age games are perfect for boomers (or just about anyone) eager to keep their minds agile with puzzles and math exercises. "Personal Trainer: Walking" is expected May 25 and will come with wireless pedometers that sync with the device to help ...

In the past couple of years we've seen a Nintendogs bundle for kids, a Brain Age bundle for the old timers, and other age-specific packages in between. As with all tech toys, every newly designed DS makes the last seem so passe. ... Nintendo To Announce Lime-Green DS/Personal Trainer Cooking Bu...

That fear has resulted in a budding industry for brain training products – exercises such as Brain Age, Mindfit and My Brain Trainer – which in 2007 generated $80 million in the United States alone. The premise of brain training is simple: participants ...

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That fear has resulted in a budding industry for brain training products -- exercises such as Brain Age, Mindfit and My Brain Trainer -- which in 2007 generated $80 million in the United States alone," Belleville said in a statement. ...

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 Spain Ese temor ha resultado en una floreciente industria dedicada a los productos del 'brain training', --compuesto básicamente por juegos como Brain Age, Mindfit o My Brain Trainer--, que en 2007 generaron un negocio de 80 millones de dólares, ...

That fear has resulted in a budding industry for brain training products – exercises such as Brain Age, Mindfit and My Brain Trainer – which in 2007 generated $80 million in the United States alone. The premise of brain training is simple: participants ...

Related articles from United Press International, Science Daily, Insciences Organisation.

 Switzerland That fear has resulted in a budding industry for brain training products – exercises such as Brain Age, Mindfit and My Brain Trainer – which in 2007 generated $80 million in the United States alone. The premise of brain training is simple: participants ...

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 Canada - Much like Dr. Kawashima’s disembodied head in the Brain Age titles, professor Kageyama will greet users when they start the game, provide encouragement, ...

 - Feb 6, 2009 Nintendo, with its “Wii Fit” and “Brain Age” games knows a thing or two about self improvement and has, most recently, launched “Personal Trainer: Cooking” ...

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 Canada - Personal Trainer: Math (DS). This one has much more in common with the Brain Age games than Personal Trainer: Cooking. The practice exercises and 100 Cell ...

 CA Players are ushered through the game’s interface by a cartoon caricature of the professor, which lacks the charm of the vector-drawn Dr. Kawashima of the “Brain Age” series. The daily training mode progresses in difficulty as you improve your speed and ...

Times Online  Australia - According to Alain Lieury, professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Rennes, "The Nintendo DS is a technological jewel. As a game it's fine, ... Nintendo brain-trainer 'no better than pencil and paper' Times Online all 13 news articles

By Brian Ashcraft Just as researchers in Scotland say Brain Age works, researchers in France say it doesn't. According to data from University of Rennes, Brittany, Brain Age failed to show any significant jump in memory. Nintendo brain-trainer 'no better than pencil and paper' [Times Online]

 DC - Jan 24, 2009 From a pure fun factor, the bad news is Mr. Kageyama's on-screen personality and antics fall far short of bubbly professor Ryuta Kawashima in Brain Age. ...

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 NY - us of all the brain trainer games targeting the Meta Trend of Aging Population that have become so popular in Asia, such as Nintendo Brain Age game. ...

 CA - Jan 12, 2009 It's almost as if someone at Nintendo thought that the math problems in Brain Age could be pulled out as a stand-alone product, because that's pretty much ...

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By Ross Miller Filed under: Nintendo DS, Casual Last week, forum members at RedFlagDeals stumbled upon a listing on Canadian retailer Future Shop for a two-toned, Crimson and Black Nintendo DS Lite bundled with a matching carrying case and Brain Age 2. The entire set was priced at $159.99 Canadian dolla...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Reggie Fils-Aime described how Nintendo is aiming to improve mental health with a range of puzzle games and educational software for the Nintendo DS handheld device. The "Brain Age" franchise has already sold 15 million titles and new titles from Ubisoft promise t...

By Alexander Sliwinski Filed under: Culture, Nintendo DSKonami recently unveiled Dream Skincare in Japan for the Nintendo DS. The "game" is more like Brain Age, except instead of being a brain trainer, it's a skin trainer. The game features a virtual version of beauty adviser Chizu Saeki (pictured) and allows p...

By Brian Ashcraft With brain training games being old hat, Japan is craving for something new. Enter comedy training games. Ha. Developer Skip has created Arukime DS, a two to four player game. In fact, it's not possible to play the game alone! (Well, you can play it alone, but you'll need two DSes.) A question is p...

By Alvaro Today we will continue our review of the benefits of brain training for specific occupations: in this case, pilots and basketball players. The lessons can be relevant not only for corporate training but also for education and brain health & wellness.

By Brian Ashcraft Seniors aren't the only ones that need brain training. Dorks do, too. And now in Japan they can as a CD-ROM geek trainer called Moeru Nou Tore has hit otaku-land. The word "moe" refers to the pink, the cute and the dow-eyed doe-eyed, "nou" means brain and the "tore" is a shortened form of "traini...

By Brian Ashcraft To promote its upcoming brain game Nohryoku Trainer Portable 2, Sega sent out girls in miniskirts (Sega miniskirts) with PSPs chained to their necks. The game Nohryoku Trainer Portable was a big PSP hit in Japan and is not a rip-off of Nintendo's brain game as the Sega title was originally d...

By Brian Ashcraft While Nintendo's DS gray matter trainer Prof. Kawashima: How Old is Your Brain? may have two separate volumes flying off shelves in Japan, it will pack thrice the excitement for its US release. Apparently, there will be one, two, three volumes of the uber-popular title to choose from. Havin...