Re: What do you think of BrainHQ?

[Brain Train]

yes, i tried it several years back (when it was called Posit Science). and was so impressed i gifted 1 year subscription to some of the people close to me.

I found a tone based exercise really amazing. you exercise your ear and you get better at talking!!! 

Words would just flow from memory to your tongue effortlessly and speedily. 

Though,  not all exercises made observable difference. Perhaps it depends on the area of deficit in your brain. When that area is exercised you see observable difference immediately.

in case of auditory exercises, this happened within a month or two with half an hour/one hour exercise time per day which included many other exercises as well.

BTW, it has subscription for 3 months as well. and from time to time, there are discount offers. like thanks giving, fathers day, etc.

It is founded by a well recognised neuroscientist himself. I read a chapter in a book (perhaps the name of the book was 'Brain that changes itself') on the research done by this scientist.

I found that information in the book very impressive. Initially, they started a company to help the kids and later on started this other company.

I trust that these people know something really genuine about training the brain and are not making hollow claim.

So, if you can afford the subscription, it may be worth giving a try, at least for 3 months. And 3 months is enough period to see the difference in yourself if you do it regularly, half an hour or an hour a day, 5 or 6 days a week.

BT

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 12:10 AM, M <maxima...@gmail.com> wrote:

This company was referenced by Dr. Bredesen in his book The End of Alzheimer's. According to the author, the company has a very rigorous approach that is backed by science but I have my doubts. Have you tried it? What do you think?

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[Brain Train]

To me the most amazing exercise was tone based exercise as already told in previous mail.

other exercises involved remembering word/text sequences. Performance on that improved as i was progressing on my course. To me, improvement in performance on these exercises served as indicator that there is improvement in memory as a result of tone based exercise. I doubt these exercises have much benefit on their own.

This goes in line with their theory that as the tone based exercises improve encoding of sound which helps in storing and recalling sounds better and easier.

Speech sound is seen as combination of tone by the brain. 

or in other words we can say that any word sound can be broken down in to combination of these fundamental pieces of sound (individual pure tones of different frequencies).

when brain is exercised to identify these tone more precisely (differentiating more and more narrowly differing sound tones, as we make progress in course), it's processing speed and precision improves for general speech sound processing also.

in brain processing, faster is better.

As a result, it encodes better, store better and hence recall better.

For example, if the sound is not perceived clearly while listening, its recall would also be poor! it's like if the original version itself is dirty, it's copy would be by default dirty.

to recall better, it has to stored better in first place.

other exercise are visual exercises which are supposed to improve peripheral vision, particularly in older people which results in safer driving. this is what they claim. Insurance companies are supposedly giving discount on premium if these courses are undertaken!

i personally didn't observe improvements which appears to bring benefit in real life from these visual exercises.

the key thing here is that different people have different deficits. once they pick an exercise which exercises deficit area of their brain, they will see immediate and significant improvement.

By 'immediate' I mean after 3-4 weeks. you don't have to wait for months to see the benefit.

in my experience of sound based exercise, the benefits were so signifiant and so quick that there was no doubt at all. Alas, this is the only exercise which brought this kind of tremendous difference where I could quickly feel it and get benefitted from in personal life. I could hear more clearly, speech became more fluent, words feel like flowing freely.

many time people stuck , trying to search for the right word.. that just stopped. without effort, words will become part of your speech. you don't have to put conscious effort! it is as if you are giving a speech which you have already delivered 20 times. That is, completely effortless. no struggle for finding the word!

This single exercise is worth the money spent. But I am not sure, if it will help everybody like that. But people who have poor performance in speaking, recalling verbal content/words are like to benefit most.

BT

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 12:33 AM, M <maxima...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you for the response!

What are the top 2-4 games that are most well researched in your opinion and/or made the biggest difference to you personally?

Dr. Bredesen specifically mentioned "Double Decision" game. Thanks!

On Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at 9:05:37 AM UTC-8, ADDer wrote:

yes, i tried it several years back (when it was called Posit Science). and was so impressed i gifted 1 year subscription to some of the people close to me.

I found a tone based exercise really amazing. you exercise your ear and you get better at talking!!! 

Words would just flow from memory to your tongue effortlessly and speedily. 

Though,  not all exercises made observable difference. Perhaps it depends on the area of deficit in your brain. When that area is exercised you see observable difference immediately.

in case of auditory exercises, this happened within a month or two with half an hour/one hour exercise time per day which included many other exercises as well.

BTW, it has subscription for 3 months as well. and from time to time, there are discount offers. like thanks giving, fathers day, etc.

It is founded by a well recognised neuroscientist himself. I read a chapter in a book (perhaps the name of the book was 'Brain that changes itself') on the research done by this scientist.

I found that information in the book very impressive. Initially, they started a company to help the kids and later on started this other company.

I trust that these people know something really genuine about training the brain and are not making hollow claim.

So, if you can afford the subscription, it may be worth giving a try, at least for 3 months. And 3 months is enough period to see the difference in yourself if you do it regularly, half an hour or an hour a day, 5 or 6 days a week.

BT

On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 12:10 AM, M <maxima...@gmail.com> wrote:

This company was referenced by Dr. Bredesen in his book The End of Alzheimer's. According to the author, the company has a very rigorous approach that is backed by science but I have my doubts. Have you tried it? What do you think?

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[Yaddy]

It seems like you are talking about Auditory Ace...that seems to be no different than Auditory N-Back training...no?

[Brain Train]

It is certainly different from Auditory N-Back. I don't know about Auditory Ace.

N-back involves keeping track of what you heard, whereas this exercise involves recognising direction of tone change (frequency increasing with time or decreasing with time).

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