Brainpower of elderly is boosted by video games: Just 12 hours playing dramatically improved multi-tasking ability, memory and attention span

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• Researchers said NeuroRacer helps improve multi-tasking and is better than crosswords at brain-training
  
• Pensioners' brains rejuvenated after 12 hours and got better with practice
  
• Improvements so great they did better than those in their 20s

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Published: 01:15 BST, 5 September 2013 Updated: 11:17 BST, 5 September 2013

Researchers at the University of California say their NeuroRacer game rejuvenated the brains of pensioners after only 12 hours

A simple video game devised by scientists dramatically rejuvenated the brains of pensioners after only 12 hours.

The improvements were so great, they did better than those in their 20s at the driving-based challenge, said researchers.

The multi-tasking ability, memory and attention span of the men and women aged 60 to 85 were all boosted by the ‘brain training’ with some of the benefits still obvious six months later.

The scientists said that their technique could be used to keep healthy older adults ‘at the top of their game’ for longer.

Brain training is a popular way of trying to keep the mind sharp into old age but views about its value to everyday life are mixed.

However, the researchers at the University of California believe their NeuroRacer game is different as it was designed to improve multi-tasking, a skill known to deteriorate with age.

Players use a joystick to navigate a car along a winding road while various signs pop up.

Users must push a button when they see one particular sign while ignoring all the others.

The game gets more difficult as a player improves but shouldn’t become so difficult that it is too frustrating to enjoy.

Tests showed that a small amount of practice led to rapid improvements. After just 12 hours of using it on a laptop at home over a month, the pensioners fared better than players who were decades younger.

Working memory and attention span also improved, despite the game not aiming to do this, reported the journal Nature.

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Dr Adam Gazzaley, who has patented NeuroRacer, believes it does more to train the brain than other methods like crosswords and card games.Cwc co watch case serial numbers.

Dr Adam Gazzaley said his game does more to train the brain than other methods like crosswords

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Alexandra Trelle, of Cambridge University’s memory lab, said the results should encourage people to strive to improve their mind sharp and agile throughout life.

She said that games like NeuroRacer aren’t the only option – with activities such as learning a new language or taking up a musical instrument likely to be more fun and at least as beneficial.

Dr Simon Ridley, head of research at the Alzheimer’s Society, said: ‘The ability to improve cognitive health in old age could be crucial in the search for new treatments and preventions for dementia.’

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Some people think video games rot your brain, but a new study suggests the opposite may be true if you're older.

Neurological activity in the brains of people as old as 80 began resembling that of people in their 20s after playing a multitasking driving game, according to a report published Thursday in the science journal Nature.

Older adults who drove a car around a course in NeuroRacer while picking out road signs showed improvement in their short-term memory and long-term focus, suggesting that games tailored to specific skills can have cognitive benefits.

A group led by neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley of the University of California, San Francisco, tested 30 adults of various ages on their multitasking skills as measured by gaming.

They confirmed that the skills deteriorate with age, but then had 46 participants aged 60-85 undergo a four-week training period with NeuroRacer, which involves a hilly driving course and signs that pop up. The game got harder as the players improved.

After the training, the subjects' ability to do multiple things at once such as driving and picking out signs, improved to the point that they got higher scores than untrained 20-year-olds. The skill level remained intact six months later without practice, according to Nature.

Significantly, other skills also benefited. Working memory and sustained attention, which are abilities used in everyday tasks, were better and stayed better.

The results contrast with earlier data suggesting brain games don't improve cognition.

'These findings highlight the robust plasticity of the prefrontal cognitive control system in the aging brain, and provide the first evidence, to our knowledge, of how a custom-designed video game can be used to assess cognitive abilities across the lifespan, evaluate underlying neural mechanisms, and serve as a powerful tool for cognitive enhancement,' the authors write in the study.

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