Mental Gym

Who is a candidate for Mental Gym?

• Acquired brain injury
• Students, executives and others interested in increasing their mental processing speed.
• Seniors, people re-entering the workforce after a break, and others wishing to improve their mental processing abilities are all candidates for the Mental Gym.

How does Mental Gym work?

Like other parts of your body, your brain may lose some agility as you get older. Mentally stimulating activities strengthen brain cells, the connections between them and may even create new cells.

Use it or lose it. The same advise we follow to achieve physical fitness applies to mental fitness. Just as working out in the gym and jogging strengthens certain muscle groups, mental exercises appear to strengthen and enhance cognitive functions over time.

The goal of mental gym it to revive certain mental abilities before they slow down. The computerized programs help to improve brain functions. Some of the areas worked with in the mental gym are short term memory, long term memory, visual-spatial abilities, reflexes and logic abilities.