Brain Age, is a game that is one of the most successful Nintendo DS launches ever. Due to its promise of stimulating brain activity and helping with memory, it has been adopted by many DS owners.

Is Dr. Ryuta Kawashima telling the truth though, when he claims that training your brain with Brain Age really does help?

According to Alain Lieury, the results of Brain Age are inconclusive at best. In his research, he found that Brain Age didn’t necessarily help his subjects with memory or math. In his research, he had a group of children, each with various ways to learn and test the mind. Some were given Brain Age, others conducted pencil-and-paper tests, while others just went to class normally.

In the mathematics test, nearly all of the children showed improvement with the math section. Brain Age didn’t necessarily improve their skills more effectively. In the memory tests, the results showed even less of an improvement for the children playing Brain Age.

Of course for every study, there’s another one out to refute it. While I agree that Brain Age might not improve your brain functions more so than other methods, that isn’t the point. The point is that while Brain Age might be equal in effectiveness for all of the tests, it’s by far the most fun as well.

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