It’s safe to say that mental fitness has graduated in status from cottage to full-blown industry.   It’s grown fast, and without much oversight. 

    Of all the online brain gyms I’ve joined, the one I’ve been drawn back to over the years is “My Brain Trainer”  (www.mybraintrainer.com).  It has what I like to think of as the “Nautilus effect” –exercises that are quick and almost fun, rather like the difference between working out on Nautilus machines instead of doing endless repetitions with free weights.

      A number of years ago, I met a Manhattan psychologist who  had the idea of adapting stroke rehab software for average folks who were experiencing memory problems.  These were not people who were sick but, rather, people in middle age who were not as sharp as they once were.  They would come to his office and sit in front of a computer screen for an hour, negotiating mazes and mani

 The pressing question of the age: Is The New York Times crossword puzzle going to save you from memory decline?  

The oft-prescribed drug Ambien has been implicated in numerous cases of sleep-driving, sleep gorging, and sleep-stealing, none of it remembered once it has worn off.  John McCain, takes Ambien when he has trouble sleeping.  Then what?

A "benign" seasickness drug, with a checkered history, has been implicated in cruise ship and date rapes, as well as robbery, and because it interferes with memory, victims are at a loss to identify their assailants.

It was a bad month for a host of promising new Alzheimer's drugs...until yesterday.

Who would have thought that the next new thing for treating Alzheimer's might be in the back of the medicine cabinet of a Russian with hayfever?

The most effective methold to slow down Alzheimer's doesn't even have a co-pay

Why get tested for memory loss when you can worry like hell about it instead?