Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Get Smart with Lumosity!

Have you been out of school awhile and feel like your brain is slowly decaying? Do you worry about mental diseases and memory loss taking over your life? Have you had a stroke? Are you recovering from migraines or fibromyalgia and need to get those brain cells snapping again?

When I found this website I realized that this is exactly what I absolutely needed to get that fresh from high school feel back to my mental functioning. I just found Lumosity yesterday but I feel that it has potential. Energy drinks and coffee; crossword puzzles and Jeopardy! can only do so much.

I signed up for a 14 day trial. I plan on hanging around for at least a month. They have monthly memberships and yearly memberships.

Lumosity has games that are specially designed and tested to improve a variety of brain functions including working memory, attention, verbal fluency, reasoning, spatial memory and visual cognition.

I have taken a few tests that measure various brain functions right from a psychologist. These weren't ink blots mind you, but highly specialized sometimes silly looking tests that when the results were processed a detailed report could be made. These games seem to be those tests taken one step further. This is something that insurance companies should be paying for to help people who have had strokes or oxygen deprivation get back on their feet.