Game Screen Shots into Memory Tests

Turn your game-screen shots into memory tests. How about the upcoming Prey?
Now it can be done. Or maybe the upcoming Indiana Jones game or Star Wars Title. We've already mastered Battlefront II. Could use a jetpack in real life, I think.

M E M O R Y P I X

Get it.

Gary Small of the Semel Institute at UCLA Argues for Lifestyle Changes to fight Alzheimer's

Gary Small, Professor at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience at UCLA, argues that Lifestyle Changes May Improve Cognitive Function And Brain Efficiency

Couple this with the recent Alzheimer's and Dementia article by Dr. Ashford and Stanford colleagues, Wes formerly of UCLA, on cognitive screening and the suggestion that we are at the cusp of a new age of being able to identify impairments earlier AND

the work of people like Mike Weiner at UCSF/UC Berkeley who is heading up an ambitious and rigorous effort to be able identify the earliest cases of Alzheimer's with MRI and we have the beginnings of a California gold rush in cognitive science, and, humbly, this website which is signing up people from all over the world left and right.

It's a wonderful time to be working in the field. If you want to hear more about Dr. Weiner's work and volunteer to be in a study, please do so here, or just from our home page. If you live near Stanford, you might want to go there, if you are in SF, consider UCSF. I doubt that Mr. Semel even knows that Yahoo! has anything to do with this, but they do.

A UCLA research study published in the June issue of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry found that people may be able to improve their cognitive function and brain efficiency by making simple lifestyle changes such as incorporating memory exercises, healthy eating, physical fitness and stress reduction into their daily lives.

"We've known for several years that diet and exercise can help people maintain their physical health and live longer, but maintaining mental health is just as important," said lead investigator, Dr. Gary Small, professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA. "The UCLA study is the first to show the impact of memory exercises and stress reduction used together with a healthy diet and physical exercise to improve brain and cognitive function."

goal broken yesterday

We broke that goal, now we're looking at the 1st thousand after it.

Let's break 1,120,000 members today.

Not too many more people need to sign up for us to do that....give us a hand

Give Peace a Chance with Games

Sims creator Wil Wright backs peaceful games

Games can help your brain, everybody is saying. The SF Chronicle picks up the thread on "peaceful" games and cognitive games, mentioning the upcoming serious 'games' conference.

for a fun brain game try this it also comes in a search-engine flavor.

register for more games here, for free

Get into real brain research in the Bay Area - Stanford or UCSF? - go here.
more than 20 people have signed up just for research so far today
congrats to dr. ashford on his new journal publication on cognitive screening

Serious Games Now a Gaming Category...

CMP Media and Gamasutra announced today the 1st serious games summit, in Arlington, VA, based on games for education, training and healthcare.

People are beginning to recognize the therapeutic,educational and psychological benefits from games...

Rebuilding it...

We're rebuilding the engine on gamer-iq - so if (when) you encounter some broken links, we beg your indulgence. We just wiped off some of the hot grease on a shop rag so we could write this post. If you've ever dropped and rebuilt a VW engine, you know there's lots of finicky little parts with pins and springs that have to cleaned, greased, and carefully reinstalled or tapped into place with the soft touch of a surgeon

Cognitive Labs in National Geographic Kids

Cognitive Labs will be quoted in National Geographic Kids, in an upcoming issue. The topic will be games, in general. Subscribe to the magazine so you can see it. Thanks to the cool folks at 1up.com.

Cognitive Labs game gets Cool site of the day

Try it out.

PS3 ETA set

Reality Check. We're back from e3. Good to see that the ever-popular PS3 is going to be hitting stores....ETA November 17, 2006. Ken Kutaragi, head of Sony Computer Entertainment, proudly holds up the new Sony PlayStation 3 game console like a tower of hotcakes slathered with Mrs. Butterworth's - during a media preview in Los Angeles. By then Sony will have its own version of brainware, most probably.

LiveBlog from e3

Check out this 'feed' from Kotaku...

DS Mania: Dudes get brain exercise

refresh

Hey, the gamerIQ section is going to be refreshed in new and exciting ways. All I can say is you'll see when the changes start...

Virtual Life in Korea

Virtual Lives Proliferate, from CyWorld (here) to Second Life in the US. Cyworld has 17 million users.

Koreans are keen on being connected at all times....
In a 10th storey apartment with a stunning view over Seoul, Woo Jae-yeon is explaining how she furnished her room.

"It was a bit bare at first," she says, "so I bought these bright colourful carpets and the flowery wallpaper. And these pictures of a Disneyland Castle represent how I want to live - like a Princess."

This professional woman in her mid-twenties isn't describing the tastefully furnished apartment she shares with her husband - but a virtual room on the internet.

Jae-yeon is among 17 million Koreans who spend a lot of their time in Cyworld - a website which provides them with a virtual social life.

read more from the BBC.