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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | Hot on the heels of Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!, the brain training phenomena grows with Brain Age 2! Seventeen all new, engaging activities designed to help work your brain and increase blood flow to the prefrontal cortex. Whether you’re playing simple songs on a piano keyboard or monitoring the photo finish of a footrace, you’ll love your new mental workout! Features - 17 brand-new activities
- Keep training: Up to four save files keep track of your improvement
- Expanded multiplayer: Compete with family and friends
What is Brain Age? Brain Age acts like a treadmill for the mind! Brain Age 2: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day for Nintendo DS is a fun, rewarding game that helps you flex your mental muscles with quick activities that help keep your brain in shape. Brain Age is inspired by the research of Dr. Ryuta Kawashima, a prominent Japanese neuroscientist. His studies evaluated the impact of performing certain reading and mathematic exercises to help stimulate the brain. On your first day of exercise, you will take a series of tests and get a score that determines how old your brain is. This number is called your DS Brain Age. Perform daily exercises just minutes a day over weeks and months to get better at the exercises and lower your DS Brain Age!
Why is brain training good for you? We all know as we grow older our bodies change and it becomes important to regularly exercise to maintain health and fitness. Our brain is no different. That's where Brain Age comes in. Dr. Elizabeth Zelinski, dean and executive director of University of Southern California’s Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, says games like Brain Age can help keep older generations of Americans’ minds active. "Americans can do a great deal to maintain and even improve their mental abilities," Zelinski explains. "Aging is about taking on new challenges for our minds. Nintendo’s Brain Age is a great way to do that."
How does Brain Age work? The Nintendo DS Touch Screen lets you write your answers with a stylus, just as though you were writing on paper. Plus, the Nintendo DS's voice input identifies particular words you'll speak during games like the Stroop Test. Brain Age tracks your progression through each exercise with easy-to-read line charts. Use Brain Age each day to open new exercises to test your ability. Brain Age includes a fun calculation competition for friends and family—it's a snap to download this minigame to as many as 15 DS systems using only one Brain Age 2 game card! Challenge yourself and find ways to stay sharp. With the simplicity of the Nintendo DS, and Brain Age's challenging and rewarding exercises, baby boomers and test-prepping kids alike can stimulate their brains! | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 5.73 inches | | Product Width: | 5.16 inches | | Product Height: | 0.64 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.26 pounds | | Package Length: | 5.28 inches | | Package Width: | 4.65 inches | | Package Height: | 0.79 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.26 pounds | | Release Date: | August 20, 2007 | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 200 reviews |
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| | Game Information | | Platform: | Nintendo DS | | Media: | Video Game | | Item Quantity: | 1 |
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| | Features | New Activities! The title is a series of minigames designed to give your brain a workout. The 17 new, engaging activities are all designed to help work your brain and increase blood flow to the prefrontal cortex. Whether you're playing simple songs on a piano keyboard or monitoring the photo finish of a footrace, you'll love your new mental workout!Keep training! When you start a new game, you will take a series of tests and get a score that shows how old your brain is. This number is called your Brain Age. With daily training over weeks and months, you can improve your mental acuity and lower your Brain Age. Progress is charted in graph form.Expanded multiplayer! You can keep up to four save files on one game card. Sharing a game allows you to compete in a picture-drawing quiz or a word challenge with family and friends. You can also use DS Download Play to send a demo to friends or compete with up to 16 players in one of four fun modes.
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 Exercise that Brain Jul 21, 2010
Basically this game is just like the first Brain Age, but with minor differences in the type of puzzles that are offered. Puzzles and activities test not only skills you already have how quickly you can perform them in areas like math, reading, spelling and comprehension. Activities like Mind Sprint and Math Recall are different and really test your memory(mine is horrible so I need this). Do not use this while you're tired, I tanked at the brain age test and got a high (older) brain age score. The good thing is you can always take the test again another day. I like that your progress can be tracked and reviewed at any time and you can unlock new games as you train.
 Definately a challenge Jun 29, 2010
I am not brilliant nor am a dolt, but I do know that this certainly gets your brain going. It is challenging but fun. I try to do it every day. It really does help with concentration and memory also!
MY FAVORITE IS "VIRUS BUSTER" - FOR RELAXATION?? Jun 22, 2010
VIRUS BUSTER is a bonus game to this daily training program and it is my favorite. It is supposed to be just for relaxation, but I find it extremely stimulating. Trying to bust those viruses within the time given is not a lay-back situation. It requires quick observation and fast action. Well, I play it on hard mode. It is a little slower on easy mode.
VIRUS BUSTER unlocks automatically after many days of stamped games. I really don't know exactly how many are required. However, there is a way to access it manually and immediately after the first stamp of the first day. On the Training section, go to the bottom of the list and tap on the last appearance with ???. You need to have completed at least one of the exercises and obtained the daily stamp for Virus Buster to open here.
As for the other games, the ones for training your mind, my favorites are Memory Sprint, Change Maker, Piano Player, Word Scramble and Calendar Count.
I love to train my mind every day with these exercises. I also look forward for my daily dose of excited fun with Virus Buster...it can be quite addictive.
A NOTE OF CAUTION HERE: Anything in an excessive dose is harmful. Therefore, if you get addicted to VIRUS BUSTER set a limit to your play time. Too much of a good thing is not a good thing. I've read that some people have exceeded themselves with video games to the point of falling into a seizure. Just be careful if you get addicted to it, and I am not joking.
If you have a Nintendo DS Lite, you can play the original version of Virus Buster in a Game Boy Advance (GBA)format. The game is called "Dr. Mario" and it is also a lot of fun!
 Good idea -- bad user interface May 11, 2010
I've been using Brain Age 2 for exactly one year yesterday -- I know this because as a 'birthday' present it locked me out of all the games.
It seems it only has space to store a year's worth of statistics -- statistics I never bothered to look at.
If there was a way to easily clear the statistics and continue, I didn't see it.
I wiped out my record completely and started over.
Right back to start with only a few of the games (SignFinder, Word Scramble, Piano Player, and Memory Sprint) enabled.
My other complaints are the repetitive, 'pep' talks; and its problems reading my hand writing and recognizing my voice.
On the plus side, I do believe the games are helpful. The big thing you get with Brain Age that you don't get with puzzles like Sudoku is rapid recall and concentration drills.
When I started using it the first time it calculated my 'Brain Age' at about 20 years more than my actual age. When I did the same test today, it calculated my 'Brain Age' at half my actual age.
Like I said, I do believe the games are helpful -- and if I had written this the day before it locked me out I would have rated it higher.
Good for you. Apr 14, 2010
It's a good game that stimulates your brain all right. But It records your results only once a day, which is pain because then you can"t exactly practice at it and eventually get better such as in Big Brain Academy. Plus a lot of the features have to be unlocked by playing a number of days, etc. The touch/writing feature is a bit of a pain because it isn't always accurate. Apparently we're all supposed to write our letters a certain way in order to be recognized by the game. However if you have time to kill and aren't too easy bored by repeating the same exercises for days on end, then it's OK (Just not entertaining) Have to say my favorite feature is the change maker (because it seems the most useful in real life :)
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