Play our game and help us find out if brain training works

"The BBC Lab UK experiment to test the benefit of brain training is extremely exciting, and has the potential to make an enormous contribution to the 'brain health' of the nation. We want to find out if brain training really works and - if it does - what type of brain training is most effective."

Professor Clive Ballard is the Director of Research for the Alzheimer's Society.

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• The results - April 2010

Recruitment for this trial is now closed. You can read about the results of the trial

However, the brain training trial is continuing with people over 60 to see whether brain training could help to maintain brain function in older people. Alzheimer's Society wants to encourage people over 60 to continue with the trial so that this vital research can be completed.

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