Re: [tips] "Brain Training" to prevent dementia

2015-11-10 Thread Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D.
On Nov 10, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Stuart Vyse wrote: > You may be interested in a column I wrote on this topic recently. Link below. > > http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/neuro-pseudoscience/ An excellent critique. Thank you. Tom Stafford (http://mindhacks.com/2015/11/05/a-gold-standar

Re: [tips] "Brain Training" to prevent dementia

2015-11-10 Thread Stuart Vyse
Jeff, You may be interested in a column I wrote on this topic recently. Link below. http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/neuro-pseudoscience/ In addition, there is a 2014 consensus statement on brain training that ends with these words: *In summary: We object to the claim that brain games

[tips] "Brain Training" to prevent dementia

2015-11-10 Thread Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D.
Yesterday, I read a Mind Hacks post by Tom Stafford on ‘Brain Training’ titled “A gold-standard study on brain training” (http://mindhacks.com/2015/11/05/a-gold-standard-study-on-brain-training/). My students sometimes ask about ‘brain training’, so I read the post and then ordered and download