Tetris: boost your brain's efficiency


	Tetris: boost your brain's efficiency

dopesick

9-2-2009 2:33 AM

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brain, neurology, science, tetris

dopesick says:

Great! So now playing tetris very often just doesn't sound bad anymore! Get your games ready, fellas, time to boost the grey matter!

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<SPAN class="first-letter">P</SPAN>laying <I>Tetris</I>, the classic eighties video game, can boost the brain's grey matter, according to a new study.
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“This kind of research is demonstrating the reasons and the conditions under which the brain becomes adaptive and changes,” says Richard Haier, a psychologist and co-investigator in the study, published yesterday in the online journal BMC Research Notes.
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“It is a mystery,” Dr. Haier says.
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<I>Tetris</I> is an ideal tool for brain research, he adds.
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