In TODAY.com's Expert Tip of The Day, a neurologist and Alzheimer's researcher shares how playing cognitive speed training games can lower dementia risk in elderly adults.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A large, long-term study found that playing a brain training video game may help protect the brain against dementia for decades.

Brain training games are games that allow players to complete tasks that practice specific cognitive skills that exercise their memory, attention span, logic, and fast thinking. Brain training ...

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A certain type of brain training appears to prevent or delay dementia by some 25% in people older than age 65, according to new research. Surprisingly, it wasn't memory or problem-solving tasks that ...

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