Kick Your Brain Health Into Overdrive With These Training Apps

Keeping your brain active is essential to your cognitive health. Whether you want to improve your memory, do better in school or focus more at work, you can train your brain almost anywhere with apps.

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Brain Boosting Apps

There are a lot of brain boosting apps out there to choose from! Whether you are interested in improving memory, reducing anxiety or anything in between, there is something out there. Here’s a compiled list of great apps to get you started:

  • Lumosity: memory, attention, problem solving, processing speed or flexibility of thinking
  • CogniFit Brain Fitness: Cognitive abilities including memory and concentration
  • Brain Trainer Special: Memory and problem-solving
  • Brain Fitness Pro: Focus, memory and problem-solving
  • Happify: Train your brain to be happier
  • Fits Brain Trainer: Games and puzzles for mental agility
  • Eidetic: Designed to help you memorize anything
  • Personal Zen: Stress and anxiety reduction
  • Elevate: Listening, memory, comprehension
  • Peak: focus, memory, mental agility, problem solving and language skills
  • NeuroNation: numeracy, memory, perception and reasoning
  • BrainHQ: brain workouts
  • Brain Yoga: low-pressure brain building games and exercises

Do They Really Work?

Who wouldn’t want to get smarter by playing a game? Many of these products originate from scientific research that has shown positive effect in some individuals; however, the effectiveness of these apps is highly controversial in the field of Science. There is one consensus though among app makers and scientist – keeping the brain active is important and playing games is fun.

Apps provide both fun activities and put your brain to work, so why not give them a try. If they improve your cognitive abilities, you’ll reap the benefits, but at the very least, you’ll spend some time having fun and performing much needed brain stimulating exercises.

If apps just aren’t for you, any activity that causes you to ‘think’ will give your brain the needed stimulus. Play a game a bridge or solitaire.