Cognitive Games for Seniors

Computer-based tasks aimed at increasing mental activity

can improve cognition in patients with Alzheimer’s disease

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Computer-based tasks aimed at increasing mental activity and enhancing mental function can improve cognition in patients with  Alzheimer's disease.  

“The interactive multimedia internet-based system, in combination with the standard pharmacological treatment of Alzheimer's disease, provides for better cognitive function in these patients, demonstrating that they are capable of benefiting from cognitive stimulation, even after the disease has advanced,” said Mr. Lluís Tárraga, lead investigator of the study and developer of the IMIS tool. 

Researchers found that the internet-accessible computer activities were even more successful than classic exercises of mental stimulation commonly used with dementia patients. The findings, from the Fundació ACE, Institut Català de Neurociències Aplicades in Barcelona, Spain, and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, are published in the October issue of the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.

Source: Science Daily, Oct-2006