If you have ever wished for a better memory, greater focus, better multi-tasking abilities or a generally sharper mind, you need wish no longer. Brain games have been scientifically demonstrated to enhance various cognitive functions through the magic of neuroplasticity. No matter how old you may be (or how slow), everyone can benefit from doing mental exercises. This is not myth, its science.

Brain Training Articles

August 15, 2010
Brain Training May Keep Elderly More Ambulatory

Results from a recently released study suggest that computer-based brain training programs may reduce the risk of falling in the elderly. Researchers chose subjects who were having trouble walking and enrolled them in a brain fitness program for eight weeks to see if mental exercises would have an impact on their locomotion. After the training period ended, those who had doing the mental exercises were considerably better at walking and talking than those who had not received any sort of brain exercises.

As more studies like this emerge, the connection between mental and physical health becomes ever more concrete and the myriad benefits of exercising your mind become ever more clear.

October 27, 2009
How to Train Your Brain – Best Practices

There is much talk these days about using mind games to train your brain. With each passing month, another study is released touting the efficacy of brain-training and further emphasizing the importance of cognitive fitness. Along with this swelling body of research has come an ever-growing number of mental fitness programs hoping to take advantage of this trend; there are now thousands of so-called ‘brain games’ available on the internet.
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Mental Faculties Targeted by Brain Games

There is a lot of discussion these days about using games to improve brain fitness. Recent research has indicated that this form of brain-training may be most effective when the games target specific cognitive functions. With that in mind, let’s take a moment to look at some of the different mental faculties that are most commonly exercised while playing games. continue reading…

Brain Fitness News

August 16, 2010
brain fitness blogs

As more and more people are awakening to the power and importance of maintaining a healthy mind, many folks have taken up blogging to share their beliefs and experiences. Empowered by the life-changing effects of a sharper and more agile mind, these bloggers are anxious to spread the word about the myriad benefits of maintaining a high level of brain fitness. Here are a couple good blogs you may want to check out if you want to hear some personal stories of people that have undergone transformations thanks to a growing awareness of their minds and how they choose to use them.

The Best Brain Possible
My Brain Fitness
Brain Fitness Blog: Where the Mind Reigns Supreme
Mental Fitness Blog

October 29, 2009
FAQs on Neuroplasticity and Brain Fitness

For those of you that have questions about all this talk of neuroplasticity, brain training, and cognitive fitness, here are a couple FAQs you might want to check out, courtesy of Alvaro Fernandez of SharpBrains. These articles address many of the common questions, confusions and misperceptions surrounding this nascent science.

15 FAQs of Neuroplasticity and Brain Fitness
Top 7 FAQs on Brain Fitness & Brain Training
Brain Exercise FAQs

Latest Brain Games

The brain games on this website have been specially designed to maximize the training benefit. Each game targets specific mental faculties in simple and straight-forward ways. Most importantly, the games automatically become harder as you make progress, ensuring that they always provide an appropriate degree of challenge.

Reactive

This easy mental exercise targets your reaction speed, or how quickly you can interpret and react to sensory information. You will be presented with one of two different stimuli (a beep or a visual flash) and you need to then press the space bar as quickly as you can.

Patches

This brain game will exercise you ability to remember and identify patterns. In this instance, you will be working with patterns of colors, which you will need to seek out within a large matrix of colored pieces. The more effectively you can remember the pattern and the more quickly you can isolate it from the larger group, the further you will advance in this game.

Time Frames

This game targets your brain’s ability to sense the passage of time. The object of the game is to track a series of hidden countdowns and try to expose them before they expire (yet as close to the end of the countdown as possible). To be successful at this game, you will need to effectively track the passage of time, and also use your memory to keep track of where you have placed each countdown.

Word Patch

This word game will exercise your English language skills, helping you develop a stronger vocabulary and faster word recall abilities. The object of this brain game is to complete the words by filling in the missing letters. Strategically rearrange the available letters until you have filled in all the holes and created valid words.

Side By Side

In this brain-training game, you need to compare two groups of elements and quickly figure out which of the elements are not in both groups. You will be working with numbers, letters, shapes and colors as you exercise your ability to process visual information and quickly act on it.

Site News & Updates

October 27, 2009
Train Your Brain

Welcome to http://brain-training-games.net. As you might guess by the name, this website is dedicated to providing you with games and exercises to train your brain and improve your brain fitness. While this site is a new player on the brain-training scene, the material on this site has been years in the making, and we are ready to make a splash! By the time of our grand opening, we will offer at least 20 different games in 10 different categories, making us one of the more extensive brain fitness sites around. But we won’t stop there; building from our library of 100+ original brain games and exercises over at http://playwithyourmind.com, we will be adding new game to this site on a weekly basis and before long will offer the largest collection of brain training games on the internet.

While our main focus will be on developing our own brain games, we also hope to be a valuable resource for anyone looking to learn more about brain fitness, brain training, and the numerous options we now have for strengthening and sharpening our minds. As time passes, we will be adding a number of links to other similar sites as well as offering product reviews for the other brain fitness programs available on the internet.

Right now, we are just a few weeks old and still under construction. If things go according to plan, we hope to officially open for business within the first week of November. Until then, feel free to explore the site and play the currently available games (so far there are 8 completed and available online) but remember that not everything may be working properly quite yet.