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03/11/2010 - 11:07am

National Sleep Awareness Week: Ten Facts about Sleep and Brain Functioning

40 percent Americans sleep less than seven hours a night which is not enough. National Sleep Awareness Week (March 8th-12th) is a good time to remind ourselves why sleep is so important for our cognitive functioning. Here are ten facts about why that nap and extra hours of sleep are so important:

1.    Deep sleep is related to increased production of proteins. Since proteins are the building blocks of your body and they’re also responsible for repairing damaged cells, sleep is clearly a crucial component of your brain fitness.


10/28/2009 - 3:42pm

Brain Training May Help The Blind-Sighted To See

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research have found that brain training may help people who are blind due to injury to the brain region responsible for vision, gain some vision.

Patients whose primary visual cortex has been damaged through a stroke or trauma cannot consciously see, but at some level their brains are still processing their visual environment. Through brain training, these patients may regain some conscious awareness of what their minds can see.


03/08/2009 - 3:39pm

CogniFit Assessment

When people ask about what makes CogniFit brain fitness programs so different from others, I usually tell them that there are many answers to that question.

And that’s true. But it really all begins with the assessment we provide before you start your training.



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