Computer games that are designed to exercise your memory skills do not work, according to experts. While the brain fitness market has boomed in the past few years, raking in about $125 million between 2005 and 2007, most experts say there is no proof they actually do anything more than entertain.

Dr. Paul Aisen, director of the Memory Disorders Program at Georgetown University said there is no valid evidence that they preserve memory, and certainly no evidence that they ward off dementia or mental illnesses. Jo Ann O'Quinn, professor in the school of applied sciences at the University of Mississippi said that such games were a money-making scam when it comes to Alzheimer's and dementia. She said that these were brain disorders that affect the most intelligent and mentally active people.

It is insulting to think that if they had done more brain exercises they might have been able to stave off the ravages of the disease. So far there has been no study to prove that these brain games can ward off cognitive decline, or even improve one's daily to remember.

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