brain training games

With all the people coming home from the Iraq & Afghanistan wars with traumatic brain injuries, there is a lot of research going into the field of cognitive rehabilitation. Based on the science of neuroplasticity – the belief that the brain can reorder itself – cognitive rehabilitation offers much hope for people who suffer from various forms of mental trauma. The idea is that people can regain the various aspects of cognition that have been lost or damaged by specifically exercising those mental faculties (sometimes known as brain training).

One company, Aptima, has developed a training tool, called adaptive gaming for auditory training and evaluation, or AGATE, which takes participants through a series of puzzles and exercises with a spy-adventure twist to them. Their hope is that after sufficient time spent playing the game, people will start to regain the mental abilities that they have lost.

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