Reading an excellent book about a man who had a stroke similar to my husbands and

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He lost part of his vision..as did my dh who now cannot drive.
This chap also lost some of his memory too which thankfully my dh didn’t.

The guy finds out about brain training and .(.the book is called how I rescued my brain)
Mentioned a company called Posit Science.
I wondered if they would help my dh and me, as my memory isn’t as good as it used to be.

The company has some free exercises..i think to subscribe it’s about £10 a month , so I had a go and was quite shocked at how hard they are and how badly I fared.

The program Is here if anyone wants to try it..just for comparison I’m nearly 68
I did get a bit better as I’d performed the exercise more than once..but it knows you are struggling and it slows down for you 😱

www.brainhq.com/?v4=true&fr=y

To find the free exercise, scroll down the page till you get the blue section that says free exercises

Prepare to be shocked..you might find it hard on a phone btw

I’m wondering if I should buy I to the programme or not so I would be pleased to hear your thoughts

Meh, these kind of exercises are useful but not everything.

There's physical exercise, social interaction, reading, learning a language or new skill, such as playing the recorder and lots of other things that can be better for the whole of your brain.

I've found that the worst thing people can do is park themselves in front of the telly all day, that's bad for your brain.

Get out and about, interact with people, do stuff you enjoy.

Glad your husbands better by the way keep positive!

I do all of that hoochy...
And I would’ve said that the first eXexcise was quite hard and I did much better when it slowed down....if any more mnetters do the exercise and do it well from the beginning..I’d be interested to hear
Obviously I’ll be passing it round the family..we are a competitive lot any way..to see how the younger members fare
I haven’t got to the end of the book yet. This guy was a clinical psychologist and what happened to him was terrifying...strangely he was still driving..where my dh licence was removed straight away.

So, I’ll update when I’ve finished it..but would love feedback on the exercises.

It took me a while to settle in and identify the butterflies. At the beginning there weren’t enough differences to make them memorable.
So I found that hard.

My husband had syntonics which he paid privately for. That helped a lot but unfortunately not enough to get his licence back...and he really misses that

I found it quite easy right from the beginning.

I am 34 and have what would be classed as photographic memory though.

Thanks Josh
I see how far I’m slipping down the food chain ☹️
Lots of Alzheimer’s in my family gran and her three daughters, one of them my mum ..so I’m quite keen to keep my brain alert but I do get woolly over the details.

Interestingly the author cites mindfulness and meditation really helped him.
Especially mindfulness..noticing what he does when he does it, feeling what he feels when he feels, seeing what he sees when he sees it .
Going to have to make that mantra as I do tend to skate through life on auto pilot.

I warned dh I was going to start talking out loud to myself...as in I’ve just put my phone on top of the white bedroom cabinet..instead of parking ot somewhere and spending the next 5 mins looking for ir

I’ll take a look later.

I enjoy doing logic puzzles and have found that I get much better at them the more I do them. I should imagine that this sort of thing is much the same (for the average person I mean).

That’s what I was thinking
Do you really need to subscribe for a year

That’s £120 . You can buy a lot of puzzle books with that