Brain Fitness Pro uses the most sophisticated and effective brain training protocol available. This no nonsense, challenging, and somewhat addictive brain exercise increases short term memory, focus, and problem-solving ability by more than 40% in less than 20 days with thirty minutes of daily training.

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Brain Fitness Pro - Benefits
Brain Fitness Pro stimulates the growth of new brain cells, strengthening working memory, problem-solving ability, and concentration. Improving these core brain functions benefits every aspect of mental activity. In particular, the training helps achieve the following goals:

Self-Improvement And Occupational Success
Busy schedules, constant distractions, and information overload disrupt the brain's ability to form memories and stimulate new cell growth. Brain Fitness Pro provides an antidote to the mental stresses of the modern world. Requiring complete focus while stretching visual and aural working memory the training increases the ability to retain information, complete tasks, and think deeply without distraction.

Academic Success
Research has shown that working memory capacity correlates more closely to academic success than IQ. Customers of Brain Fitness Pro enjoy increases in working memory capacity of between 50% and 80%. Furthermore, the dual n-back training method employed in the software is the only brain training method proven to increase fluid intelligence (problem-solving ability). Fluid intelligence increases of more than 40% in 19 days make the training an excellent aid for anyone soon to take a standardized test (such as the SAT, GMAT, GRE, MCAT, or IQ test, etc.).

Mental Health And Well-Being
For each decade past the age of forty-five we lose about 10% of our cognitive capacity (UCSF Memory and Aging Center). Scientists † have shown that increased mental activity reduces the risk of developing Alzheimer's symptoms and dementia. (Larry, a seventy-five-year-old from Detroit, increased his short term memory by 150% in less than two months using Brain Fitness Pro. Various studies ‡ have related depression to the inhibition of new neural growth. Effective brain training creates a virtuous cycle of brain exercise, challenge, reward, and cell growth that helps combat and reduce the impact of depression.

Musical Aptitude And Appreciation
Customers consistently report dramatic and permanent improvements in their ability to play a musical instrument. The training also improves the ability to hear into a piece of music, appreciating it more fully.

Brain Fitness Pro - Research
Brain Plasticity
The more we exercise our working memory the larger it grows both physically and in the number of neural connections. ¹ Researchers at Sweden's prestigious Karolinska Institutet, a European medical university, have demonstrated that intensive training of working memory produces measurable changes in the brain,² direct evidence of brain plasticity.

Related studies show that working memory is not limited to six or seven items as thought previously thought.³ Karolinska Institutet researchers⁴ have found that a period of brain training improves working memory as indicated by the pink dotted line on the chart above.

Mind Sparke's Brain Fitness Pro directly targets working memory providing subsidiary benefits to problem solving, sensory perception, and long-term memory. Mind Sparke customers enjoy working memory increases that exceed those projected by the Karoliska Institutet (see yellow line). Customers as old as seventy-five, for instance, have increased their working memory from four or five items to seven items. Every customer who completes at least 19 days of training enjoys a substantial increase in working memory.

Working Memory & Fluid Intelligence
In 2007, Graeme Halford (Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland) and his colleagues suggested that fluid intelligence and working memory make similar and related demands on the brain's processing capacity. Susanne Jaeggi and Martin Buschkuehl posited that training of working memory could lead to increased fluid intelligence⁵ by reducing the working memory demands being placed on the brain's processing capacity. Their study recorded increases in fluid intelligence for all participants of more than 40% in comparison to a control group who did not train. (The researchers calculated fluid intelligence as the number of correct answers given to a standard set of IQ test questions⁶ in a constrained time period.) Brain Fitness Pro employs the training protocol designed for this research.

Lasting, Progressive Improvement
Customers have found that improvements in attention, working memory, fluid intelligence, and general cognition continue even after an extended break in training. And that continued training leads to continued improvement.

The Training Method
The program presents a series of white squares on a black background, three seconds apart. At the same time it produces a series of spoken letters. You must try to identify matches in both sequences. At the first level of difficulty, the matches occur two positions apart. The program presents the visual and aural sequences at the same time. As you begin to master the exercise, the program automatically adjusts the level of difficulty by increasing the distance between matches to three places and beyond.

Think better, test better, work better. MindSparke has the most sophisticated brain-training software available, and the only software scientifically proven to make you smarter.

† Joe Verghese, M.D. (New England Journal of Medicine, volume=348, issue=25, 2003). ‡ UT Southwestern Medical Center (2008, August 30). Antidepressants Need New Nerve Cells To Be Effective, Researchers Find. Czéh B, Müller-Keuker JIH, Rygula R, et al. Chronic social stress inhibits cell proliferation in the adult medial prefrontal cortex: hemispheric asymmetry and reversal by fluoxetine treatment. Neuropsychopharmacology 2007;32:1490-1503

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5 "Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory" Susanne M. Jaeggi, Martin Buschkuehl, John Jonides, and Walter J. Perrig PNAS 10.1073/ pnas.0801268105.
6 Measured using the standard Bochumer Matrizen IQ Test: BOMAT-Advanced-Short Version