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Will A Videogame Help Me Reverse My Aging Process?
I've been trying to figure out ways that I can defy age. I'm turning 30 this year, which means I will have a harder time remembering things, filtering information, and staying in shape. Since I'm not Ray Kurzweil and I can't afford plastic surgery, I'm banking on Brain Age 2, Nintendo's cognitive training software, to keep me away from wrinkles and Alzheimer's. Every day before I go to bed, I do a round of math problems (they give me the numbers; I have to find the sign that will make sense out of them), I play a song a virtual piano with my stylus (yesterday it was The Blue Bells of Scotland), and I count the change from my imaginary purchase. The primary goal is to beat yesterday's me—if I can do that on a fairly consistent basis, maybe that means I'm reversing the aging process, at least cognitively. More »
9:00 AM on Fri Mar 21 2008
By LISA KATAYAMA
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Latest by n/a: I found that my gf was actually better at Brain Age than I was. She was able to reduce her brain age to the lowest score in just under a month, where as I did not even come close...she is more »
