Dementia is one of the most rehabilitating neurodegenerative diseases, causing extreme forgetfulness and a potential breakdown of motor skills, scientists have been cracking away at research for years to try and figure out how to prevent or cure this problem. Now, some scientists believe that mind-stimulating games might actually help in the fight against dementia.
The games utilized by scientists in research are not the games you’d think of. So, not your average Call of Duty or Assassin’s Creed game, but games that focus on certain mental tasks. In these developed games, users recall patterns and sounds and have to rely on quick thinking to play.
One of the projects being worked on is titled “Double Decision.” The chief science officer of Post Science says that “the goal of Double Decision is to progressively increase the amount of visual information a brain can take in and the speed at which it processes the information–capabilities that typically decline with age. Repeated gameplay trains the brain to think and react more quickly, focus better and remember more.”
If you want to try Double Decision, you can try it out right now over at the Wall Street Journal.
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