We’re planning an update to the web version of BrainHQ that will have new ways to view your progress! You’ll find it easier to track your stars in each brain training category, your “best moments,” the levels you have completed, and more. When you complete a session in the personal trainer, you’ll see something like…
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A change to BrainHQ is on the way—and it is beautiful! In the near future, the look of the BrainHQ exercises will be updated—with clearer buttons and appealing backgrounds. For instance, Visual Sweeps currently looks like this: It gets the job done—but it’s a bit stark, and for a long time, our Art & Design…
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Some new BrainHQ study related news. Researchers at the University South Florida in Tampa have received a $44.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the Preventing Alzheimer’s with Cognitive Training (PACT) Study. This new grant furthers prior research, published as findings of the ACTIVE Study in 2017, that showed a small…
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BrainHQ is proud to be a part of a new study sponsored by the Canadian Down Syndrome Society (CDSS). The study will examine the impact of physical and brain training on cognitive and physical performance in people with Down syndrome. As our CEO Dr. Henry Mahncke said, we think it’s important that this study “directly…
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This past month, we have been working on updating foreign language versions of BrainHQ. We have made a lot of improvements to the Spanish version in particular, including adding another exercise to the Spanish version: True North (Norte Verdadero). In addition to our current versions in numerous languages, we are working on a few more…
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Every year in March, the Dana Foundation hosts Brain Awareness Week—a “global campaign to foster public enthusiasm and support for brain science.” This year, it’s coming up from March 15-21. It’s a good time to dedicate to thinking about your own brain health. What will you do to celebrate? Here’s are some real-world activities and…
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It seems Tom Brady can’t stop winning Super Bowls. At his age this is no small feat. Over the years Post Science has highlighted the fact that Tom is an avid user of the BrainHQ exercises. In fact, he even has a branded version of BrainHQ for his TB12 organization. Over the last week or…
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Looking back at 2020, it was clearly hard year for many of us—but on the glass half-full side of things, it was a great year for scientific research on the efficacy of brain training. In just that one year, 57 scholarly articles were published on BrainHQ exercises and assessments (a pace of more than one…
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We’re excited to announce the iOS 7.5 release! This is no mere bug fix—there are several fantastic new features and enhancements. Progress Tracking BrainHQ users on the web have access to a number of different ways to track their progress—and we wanted to bring these metrics to our iOS app. So, to help you track…
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We’ve got some good news about percentiles in BrainHQ! There are two parts to this: We have adjusted the data on how percentiles calculated to make them more relevant, which means you may see some changes in your percentiles and your stars. And we are adding back a popular feature that shows how your percentile…
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