Pre-law students, take heart! If you study intensely for a law school admissions test (LSAT), which involves three months of rigorous training, your brain makes positive changes. A perceptive study led by a graduate student Allyson Mackey at UC Berkley’s Helen Willis Neuroscience Institute at the Bunge Lab, shows that people who work hard at reasoning training can improve their IQ (Intelligent Quotient)*
Actually, this is good news for everyone because it shows that intelligence is malleable, and if you study hard, you can affect your cognitive capabilities positively. In this research, the educational experiences designed to train reasoning were, in fact, shown to strengthen the brain pathways that support reasoning ability.
Brain scans showed that the students who underwent training increased connectivity between the frontal lobes of the brain and parietal lobes.
Since it began, the CR Way Brain Booster Membership has focused on developing at least one skill to a very high degree. Dabbling with crossword puzzles and other games is fine and fun. If you want to make real progress, though, training until you make a positive difference from where you began is important.
Of course, Brain Booster members have an advantage over many people who are trying to learn a new cognitive skill because they have calorie restriction going for them: CR biochemistry facilitates formation of neural pathways.
If you are just beginning your Brain Booster Membership and have difficulty using the brain training software program, please be in touch with us so we can help you get started: Send a note to LongevityCenter@LivingTheCRWay.com or phone toll-free: 877-481-4841. This offer applies to people who have had been Brain Booster Members for a while too!
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Mackey AP, Whitaker KJ, Bunge SA.
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA, USA.
Frontiers in Neuroanatomy. 2012;6:32. Epub 2012 Aug 22.
PMID: 22936899, NIH, NLM, PubMed access to MEDLINE.
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