Brain fitness program study reveals visual memory improvement in older adults

Brain fitness program study reveals visual memory improvement in older adults:

"The research is being published in the journal PLoS One on July 14, 2010.

'This confirms our understanding that the brains of older adults, like those of young people, are 'plastic' - the brain can change in response to focused training,' said Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD, director of the Neuroscience Imaging Center at UCSF and senior author of the research paper. Gazzaley is associate professor of neurology, physiology and psychiatry at UCSF.

'The study shows that perceptual improvements with simple discrimination training can transfer to improved working memory in older adults, and it also shows that this increase in memory accuracy is linked to changes at the neural level.'"

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