There's nothing like a good video game to make you feel stupid.  Brain Age 2 is designed to train your brain and help get it working better.  It does this through different tasks like word scramble, sign finder, memory sprint and more.  Each of these games is designed to activate your pre-frontal cortex.  I know this because it tells me this after each game I play. ...

BRAIN AGE, for the Nintendo DS system (also available on Nintendo Wii), is a thinker game designed to improve the brain response of the player. One begins by testing their Brain Age, with 20 being optimal. This is done by completing three mini-games that vary each time you take the test. Once you know your brain age, you can spend time each day playing games meant to train your brain to respond...

I've been asking for a Nintendo DS for two years for the specific reason that I wanted to use the game Brain Age to keep my wits as sharp as possible as I age. After helping with my father-in-law, who had Alzheimer's Disease, I know I do not want to be a victim of that life-stealing ailment. They say that there are little things you can do to help keep your mind alert, and that the game...

My son received a Nintendo DS for Christmas from his Grandparents, but we bought him the Brain Age game. I have to admit that I bought it thinking that I might enjoy playing it occasionally - I love puzzle and skill games and figured this would be fun. Well, Brain Age is fun! I have played it every day since giving it to my son. One day I sneaked into his room and took the DS so that I could pl...

    I have always been a huge fan of video games that make you think.  I am really addicted to Brain Age and Brain Age 2, so when I found out that Brain Assist was coming out, I had to get it.  One thing I like about games for the Nintendo DS is that they are a lot less expensive than games for other systems.  I found Brain Assist new at Gamestop for $19.99. &...

Last Monday, I fell in a hole and twisted my knee. When I saw my doctor, he suggested that I kept my leg elevated for a few days. I have to admit that daytime TV can get boring quickly. Since my husband had already bought the Wii system, I was able to play without moving... and at the same time pump up my brain power.Big Brain Academy Wii Degree is a program that uses five types of activities t...

HI Friends, I recently was put in the situation where I had to decide yes or no on prescription drugs for my sons autism. I thought long and hard about this,and did extensive research. In my research the book,Children with Starving Brains by Jaquelyn McCandless,MD came up more that a few times.  I was researching alternative options to ritalin and similar drugs. Not that there is...

I received this book as a gift.  I was given this book because I like to do crossword puzzles occasionally.  Well, after giving the book a second glance, I realized that it is about improving your brain power by heightening the memory, reasoning, and creative thinking.  The author is a clinical professor of neurology at New York School of Medicine and has numerous other creditial...

My brain age is 45, what is yours. You can choose from sign finder, piano player, word scrambler, memory sprint, change maker, word blender, calendar count, and virus buster, a mini games, yo find you brain age. The game is only for nintendo ds, and when you play it, you hold the nintendo ds sideways. The guy that shows you the games, and helps you is very funny, i think. There is a graph to sh...

The Big Brain Academy made by Nintendo for its Nintendo DS handheld game console is very educational for my kids. It has different categories (Think, Analyze, Compute, Identify and Memorize) and every main category has three sub-categories to play on. I find every game challenging for my kids and they enjoy it playing against time.As compared to other video games I encountered so far, this is p...

One of the video games uploaded by the store where we purchased the 4G memory for my daughter's Nintendo DS Lite is this Big Brain Academy. I got to play with it several times with my kids and we had a good time mashing our brains for abrupt answers. Want to test your brain and know its mass? As an adult this one probably helps testing my memory and logic so as not to get it rusty. Of cours...

I really enjoy playing Brain Age 2.  It is one of the few games that is made for the Nintendo DS that I think is geared towards adults.  I have so much fun testing my Brain Age everyday and I love when friends come over to have them test their Brain Age.  It is great that you can take tests and improve your brain every day.  The graphics are good for the game although they a...

I had been wanting to get Brain age for a while but had prolong it for a while because I did not want to come off the money. Well my want finally got the better end of me and i bought the game. Was very upset the first time I played the game. Their is only so many game to play at first. You have to unlock the other games. One a day. Well the games were not even that fun. Add, subtract, division...

The Brain Quest series consists of sets of cards which are age/grade appropriate.  They come in sets for 1-7 grade and other varied sets for preschoolers, car games, America trivis and others.  Each set has 750 - 1,000 questions (300 questions for the preschooler sets) to "Challenge the Mind."  The deck of cards is bound together so you can't loose them all and get ...

I have always been into video games that make you think. Since I loved the Brain Age series, I thought I would have to give Big Brain Academy a try. I actually was quite surprised at the variety of games it has. It really gets your brain thinking. Big Brain Academy is a game in which it measures your brain, and the more it weighs, the smarter you are. Then, after it weighs your brain, it gives ...

 My doggie, Zeus loves going to pick out toys.  He can bearly control himself once we pull into the parking lot where the pet store is.  He starts shaking with excitement and pretty much drags me into the doors because he knows he gets to have fun.  First he picks out his treats, and then to the stuffed toy isle.  I usually keep an eye ont how much the toy he wants cost...

I can't afford a game system with Brain Age but I think I've found the next best thing for under $12.00.I believe exercising my brain is vital to staying young and on my "A" game for work.  That's why I downloaded Advanced Brain Trainer for two different PDAs (Sony Clie and Palm TX).  This is more than a game but truly helps keep you thinking quickly, logically a...

Among the many video games available for Nintendo DS Lite the Big Brain Academy is something I want my kids to play with. There are about 45-50 games downloaded in the unit when we bought the memory. I scanned the downloaded games and usually plays with it occasionally. This video game comes in five categories: Think, Identify, Memorize, Compute and Analyze. Every category has three different l...

This is probably the coolest Halloween decorative candle I have ever been given. Basically it is a ceramic skull with a hallowed out inner chamber where a red candle sits. When you light the candle the wax slowly pours from the skulls hallowed out eye sockets, creating a neat blood tear drop effect.  What is best about the ceramic candle though is that even when the candle is done, you can...

Who said video games aren't educational?  Brain Age has done it again with Brain Age 2, the video game for Nintendo DS designed to provide daily training for the ever important prefrontal cortex of my aging brain.Brain Age 2 comes with a variety of games / training exercises that only take a few minutes each day to play. From doing mental math to tapping out a tune, this game has my br...