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Researchers Say Brain Fitness Training To Strengthen Working Memory Alters Biochemistry!

Confirming numerous findings by the neuroscience community over the past few years showing that targeted brain fitness training approaches can make you better at problem-solving, boost your memory, raise your I.Q., and improve your chances of success in almost any area of life, recent data has gone one step further and shown that strategic brain training techniques for boosting your working memory actually induce positive changes in your brain chemistry.

A proactive brain fitness lifestyle initiates detectable changes in the brain cortex’s dopamine receptor count, according to a scientific study conducted by Swedish researchers and published in the journal Science. The team authoring the study used Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanning technology to get three-dimensional snapshots of participants’ brains who had engaged in some weeks of strategic brain fitness training that targeted working memory. Dr. Torkel Klingberg led the study and states, "Brain biochemistry doesn't just underpin our mental activity; our mental activity and thinking process can also affect the biochemistry."

The enhanced dopamine production permits increased efficiency in many brain functions, including making it easier to hold information in working memory to be used for real-time tasks such as solving problems and other creative applications. Some brain-based disorders are attributed to poor working memory and insufficient biochemical production. For instance, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is said to be treatable through the use of working memory training.

Working memory training using brain fitness techniques necessitate that any approach used be arranged in such a way that the technique activates the ‘learning effect’ in the brain. When your brain is consistently challenged using novel, unique effort – in other words, tasks that snap your brain out of its comfort zone in order to accomplish them – then powerful physiological processes spring into action that strengthen cells (neurons) necessary to complete that tasks. By pumping up the mental power, your brain is more able to rise to the occasion as you continue your training efforts.

These findings indicate that as you brain functions become stronger through brain fitness training, there occurs a definite, positive change in your brain chemistry that reflects the gradual transformation.