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what you are trying to remember can help you to memorize it? Drawing pictures can help by allowing you to imagine what you are trying to remember. The mind takes the information in like a camera snapping pictures and stores it in its memory banks, until you need to recall the information.

Exercises and Games

If you want to improve your memory, you might want to consider using memory exercises and games. There are various software programs that train your brain, as well as games and puzzles that help build your memory, concentration, and may even help to prevent Alzheimer's disease.

Memory Exercises - If you are interested in improving your memory, you might want to consider memory software or going online. There are several programs to choose from. Brain Age is the most recognized software program on the market. To use the program, the user needs a Nintendo DS handheld game system. Brain Age offers fifteen different tests, that challenge you to recall numbers, signs, notes, times, and dates. The first time you use the program you take a series of tests. Once you have completed your tests, Brain Age will calculate your brain age score. First time users often score higher on their brain age then their actual age. With practice, the score should go down.

If Brain Age doesn't interest you, perhaps you may be interested in going online to train your brain. Luminosity is a website created to help people increase their memory. It is the most scientific of the memory programs. It was developed by Lumos Labs, a neuroscience research and development company, that creates software tools to help increase memory and retention.
For about $10 a month, or about $80 yearly you can log on to www.luminosity.com and test your memory with exercises or games, designed to increase memory, concentration and processing speed. Another website, SelfGrowth.com offers a directory of sites and links. If you click on the mental health link on the site, you can scroll down to the puzzles and brainteasers link. This will bring up a list of thirteen different websites that offer puzzles, teasers, and mnemonics to challenge your brain.

Games and Puzzles Playing board games that demand concentration such as Chess, Checkers, Backgammon, Cribbage, Dominoes, and Mahjong can improve mental stimulation and help memory. Any game that needs heavy concentration skills, can improve your memory. If board games are not to your liking, but card games are, then games like Bridge, Pinochle, Hearts, Spades,

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