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From a newscast recently... and I work for TriHealth.
Having trouble remembering things you used to never forget? It may be time to exercise your brain. Local 12's Liz Bonis teams up with local trainers to show you the latest science behind brain fitness, in tonight's Medical Edge.
"It's no secret that your body stays in better shape when you get in a few good workouts each week.
But what would happen if you did the same thing for your brain? Well, the latest science shows it could make a big difference, not just in immediate results, but also long term."
Patricia Faust is now a brain-fitness trainer. She is trained by a company called posit science, which makes this brain fitness program.
Patricia Faust, Brain Fitness Trainer: "It's a program based on auditory input, meaning that it's a software program and you listen to six different exercises."
Rather than moving to maintain health as you would in traditional fitness, the posit science brain fitness program teaches tasks based on what you hear and see, to help improve recall and focus. During forty -one hour sessions - you perform tasks like this one, which get tougher on the brain over time.
"And help your brain start working faster, so you create speed of processing."
A recent study, conducted mainly by scientists who helped develop posit, published by the National Academy of Sciences, found this brain fitness program can help healthy adults enhance memory, which last for at least three months even after you stop using it. Posit is simple to use, but as Patricia's husband, Russell, found recently, shaping up the brain is much like shaping up the body!
Russel Faust, Program User: "It is challenging, it's not an easy task."
With your Medical Edge, Liz Bonis, Local 12.
For more information on the brain fitness program, call the TriHealth Integrative Health and Medicine Center.
http://www.local12.com/mediacenter/[email protected]
Having trouble remembering things you used to never forget? It may be time to exercise your brain. Local 12's Liz Bonis teams up with local trainers to show you the latest science behind brain fitness, in tonight's Medical Edge.
"It's no secret that your body stays in better shape when you get in a few good workouts each week.
But what would happen if you did the same thing for your brain? Well, the latest science shows it could make a big difference, not just in immediate results, but also long term."
Patricia Faust is now a brain-fitness trainer. She is trained by a company called posit science, which makes this brain fitness program.
Patricia Faust, Brain Fitness Trainer: "It's a program based on auditory input, meaning that it's a software program and you listen to six different exercises."
Rather than moving to maintain health as you would in traditional fitness, the posit science brain fitness program teaches tasks based on what you hear and see, to help improve recall and focus. During forty -one hour sessions - you perform tasks like this one, which get tougher on the brain over time.
"And help your brain start working faster, so you create speed of processing."
A recent study, conducted mainly by scientists who helped develop posit, published by the National Academy of Sciences, found this brain fitness program can help healthy adults enhance memory, which last for at least three months even after you stop using it. Posit is simple to use, but as Patricia's husband, Russell, found recently, shaping up the brain is much like shaping up the body!
Russel Faust, Program User: "It is challenging, it's not an easy task."
With your Medical Edge, Liz Bonis, Local 12.
For more information on the brain fitness program, call the TriHealth Integrative Health and Medicine Center.
http://www.local12.com/mediacenter/[email protected]
