News Summary

• A ten-week online brain training programme helped older adults’ brains act as though they were a decade younger, a recent study has found.
• BrainHQ is a brain training app that offers short, game-like exercises that train cognitive skills such as attention, memory and brain speed.
• As users improve, the challenges get harder, pushing the brain to adapt – much like increasing the weights during a workout.
• Although the brain training group showed increased activity compared with their own baseline, the difference between the two groups was not statistically significant.