Staving Off Mental Decline

In our digital world, it is really no surprise that mobile applications and gaming mobile applications have become a huge business, especially in the field of brain training games. It is a billion dollar industry and there is still to be hard evidence that these games improve mental function and prevent the decline of it. There is a game called Project: Evo that is proving to be above the rest. They are even seeking approval from the FDA. If they would be able to get the seal of approval, it might even be something that the doctor would be able to prescribe like another drug. If you start doing something that taxes your brain in productive ways, forcing it to repeatedly engage declining skills — learning a new language, for instance — those skills get measurably sharper. The problem, of course, is that most of us are pretty lazy. We’re not often going to take up mentally difficult activities in our dotage.Video games seemed like one possible shortcut.