{"id":3426,"date":"2011-03-03T15:21:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T20:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=3426"},"modified":"2011-03-03T15:25:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T20:25:41","slug":"iphone-app-to-test-brain-training-in-older-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=3426","title":{"rendered":"iPhone App to Test Brain Training in Older Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3428\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BrainJog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3428\" title=\"BrainJog\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BrainJog.jpg\" alt=\"BrainJog iPhone screen (BrainJog.org)\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BrainJog.jpg 200w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BrainJog-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(BrainJog.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Researchers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qub.ac.uk\/home\/TheUniversity\/GeneralServices\/News\/PressReleases\/Title,227617,en.html\">Queen&#8217;s University Belfast<\/a>, in Northern Ireland, U.K.\u00a0 are studying the value of brain training exercises for older adults with a prototype iPhone application to collect data and test the concept on live users. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainjog.org\/\">Brain Jog<\/a> app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch is available as a free download from Apple&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/brain-jog\/id414035111?mt=8&amp;ls=1\"> iTunes Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Queen&#8217;s University Ph.D. student Donal O&#8217;Brien, who leads the research, says the app &#8220;consists of four enjoyable mini games specifically designed to test and improve four areas: spatial ability, memory, mathematical ability and verbal fluency.&#8221; The app uses problem solving, puzzles, and reverse arithmetic, which allow users to be challenged and improve their performance with regular practice.<\/p>\n<p>During the initial distribution period, users will be asked to give feedback on their experience of playing the game. Using this information to determine what makes a good puzzle experience, the research team plans to improve and adapt the games to make the puzzles as user-friendly as possible, to maximize the number of people who play on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>In the next stage of the project, the researchers hope to track the experience and performance of these long-term players to help clarify the effects of regular brain training on aging minds. Future plans also include a study on dementia prevention using the app.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=460\">New iPhone App Tracks Side Effects in Clinical Trials<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Queen&#8217;s University Belfast, in Northern Ireland, U.K.\u00a0 are studying the value of brain training exercises for older adults with a prototype iPhone application to collect data and test the concept on live users. The Brain Jog app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch is available as a free download from Apple&#8217;s iTunes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[31,109,86,45,90,26],"class_list":["post-3426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-products","tag-biomedical","tag-computer-science","tag-engineering","tag-europe","tag-u-k","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3431,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions\/3431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}