Mike Merzenich, emeritus professor of neuroscience at University of Califiornia, San Francisco, and founder of BrainHQ
What is it: BrainHQ, an online brain training program. The people behind BrainHQ are a bunch of neuroscience PhD’s who have specifically chosen to include the kinds of exercises that have scientific proof for efficacy.
So what can it help with: BrainHQ includes 29 different exercises, which have been scientifically proven to help boost, among them:
Attention
Brain speed
Memory
People skills
Navigation
Intelligence
How does it work: You can use BrainHQ either on your computer or via an Android or iPhone app. Log in, do the exercises that BrainHQ recommends, or according to your own goals.
You can also set reminders within the app so you come back and and do it all over again a few days later, at a slightly higher level. After all, the idea is brain training. Much like physical exercise, it takes consistency to see real results.
But will it work for you? There's only one way to know for sure, and that's to give BrainHQ a try. You can sign up for a free account to try out different exercises. A BrainHQ subscription, which gives you unlimited access to all the exercises, starts at abc. In case you're interested: