Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day for Nintendo DS is a
fun, rewarding form of entertainment everyone can enjoy, as it
helps players flex their mental muscles. Brain Age is inspired by
the research of Professor Ryuta Kawashima, a prominent Japanese
neuroscientist. His studies evaluated the impact of performing
certain reading and mathematic exercises to help stimulate the
brain.
Brain Age presents quick mental activities that help keep your DS
brain in shape. Activities include quickly solving simple math
problems, counting people going in and out of a house
simultaneously, drawing pictures on the Touch Screen, reading
classic literature out loud, and more. You can also play sudoku,
the number puzzle game which has become an extremely popular
feature in U.S. newspapers.
On your first day of exercise, you will take a series of tests and
get a score that determines how old your brain is. This number is
called your "DS Brain Age". By performing daily exercises just
minutes a day over weeks and months, the better you will get at the
exercises and the lower your DS Brain Age will become.
We all know as we grow older our bodies change and it becomes
important to regularly exercise to maintain health and fitness. Our
brain is no different. "Use it or lose it," as the adage goes. New
research indicates mental acuity may be strengthened, like muscles,
with brain exercises.
Dr. Elizabeth Zelinski, dean and executive director of University of
Southern California s Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, says
games like Brain Age can help keep older generations of Americans
minds active. "Americans can do a great deal to maintain and even
improve their mental abilities," Zelinski explains. "Aging is about
taking on new challenges for our minds. Nintendo s Brain Age is a
great way to do that."
That is where Brain Age comes in.
The Brain Age exercises are designed to stimulate your brain.
Solving simple math and logic problems quickly, and reading aloud,
have been proven to be effective methods of achieving this goal.
The distinctive Nintendo DS Touch Screen lets users write their
answers with a Stylus pen, just as though they were writing on
paper or using a Personal Digital Assistant or "PDA". Furthermore,
the Nintendo DS's voice input identifies particular words you will
speak during the Stroop Test.
Brain Age tracks your progression through each exercise with easy-
to-read line charts. Consistently using Brain Age each day will
open new exercises to test your ability.
Baby Boomers and test-prepping school kids alike want to challenge
themselves and find ways to stay sharp. Brain Age acts like a
treadmill for the mind. With the simplicity of the Nintendo DS, and
Brain Age's challenging and rewarding exercises, everyone can
stimulate their DS brain, improving speed and accuracy of their
game play.

-- SPECIFITCATIONs --------------------------------------
ESRB Rating: E for Everyone
Genre/Category : Puzzle
System : Nintendo DS
Number of Players : 1 ~ 16
On-Line Compatible: No
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Single Player

Players: up to 16 players