Does training your brain boost memory and slow down the ageing process?

THEY promise to improve memory and give the brain a work-out like your body would get in the gym. But there is no evidence that brain training regimes will delay the development of Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia in elderly people, researchers said yesterday. Such exercises, which have been made popular by games such as Nintendo Training, may even be damaging by reducing the amount of time older people spend on other activities such as exercise, the researchers said. Adverts fe