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New Science Restores Brain Buzz
Slate published this piece on April 25, accurately stating that the science didn't support the idea that mental exercise could have any kind of substantial effect on our ability to think. But on April 28, Susanne Jaeggi and Martin Buschkuehl published the results of a new study on Improving Fluid Intelligence by Training Working Memory (PNAS April ...
Posted to Brains! by brain-exercises on July 20, 2008
Why Study is Not Well-Designed
This study, like many others on inexpensive nutrients, seems designed to fail with it's extremely low dosage of 400IU. If you look into vitamin D, you'll find that the body requires something like 10s of thousands of IU per day. Vitamin D experts have long been saying that daily supplementation should be more like 4000 IU rather than 400. ...
Posted to Medical Examiner by chaves on February 6, 2008