In addition to Wii, Nintendo also promoted its Brain Age game for the portable Nintendo DS, which includes a series of exercises that ostensibly help to improve brain functioning.
For example, researchers have demonstrated that real-time visual feedback from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can enable patients to retrain their brains and therefore improve brain functioning.
These studies tell us that, while we are still in the early stages of identifying exactly how exercise impacts the brain, further investigations may help us more fully identify how to use exercise to combat brain diseases and improve brain functioning.
Young people regarding their bilingualism as an advantage cited improved brain function - leading to better problem-solving and multi-tasking, and an improved ability to learn other foreign languages.
The Canadian research claimed that a patented mix of multivitamins improved brain function in older people, and the Indian study said that low-fat, high-fiber diets cut by nearly half the risk of death from heart disease.
The animals in those studies showed a reduction in age-related cardiac hypertrophy, youthful skeletal muscle repair, improved brain function and metabolism, reversal of renal and pulmonary disease and tumor suppression.
An German-American biochemist and expert in the 'quality-control' mechanisms that operate within the living cell, Dr. Walter is currently working on a "miracle" molecule that in early studies with brain damaged mice has dramatically improved brain function and restored memories.
Twelve months after the surgeries, the boys have more myelin a fatty insulating protein that coats nerve fibers and speeds up electric signals between neurons and show improved brain function, a new study in Science Translational Medicine reports.
Fish oil Fish oil is probably the most well-supported supplement in existence, with proven benefits that include fighting depression, better cardiovascular health, fat loss, and improved brain function.
However, rigorous clinical trials investigating the central and peripheral synergistic benefits of exercise for improved brain function are lacking [ 7].
