Can someone please help me about Lumosity? My husband needs brain stimulation. He can master solitaire on the computer but that is about all as he has no technical skills at all. I have looked at Lumosity but it seems impossible to find out much about it without subscribing. Would it be suitable for him, are there basic, easy puzzles as well as harder ones. Also, if I join him could I also do things on there that were more difficult or would it just be set for his level.
Thank you
I play lumosity for free you get 3 puzzles free, they are quiet easy to do.. It's good practice for your brain 😊 X it's not set to any level you just get a score at the end of each puzzle which will increase hopefully every time you do it .
Thanks Louise, I'll try and find out how to do the free ones before I sign us up to anything.
Lumosity was one of tools of my recovery in my early days. I paid for a year and it gave me back my sanity. It was like an MOT, indicating weak areas to work on. I still have my improvement graphs somewhere, I would study them on my good days and feel very pleased with myself that my memory which was about 2/100 when I started went up to above 50. My attention went from under 10 to over 80. And my words and maths were next to nil, both improving to above 60. I remember in the first week of signing up, thinking what is 7 plus 2, walking to the fridge and thinking this must be easy, I'm sure I can do this but the numbers kept jumping around in the brain. They wouldn't land and I couldn't grab them, had no focus, had no control over thoughts. Lumosity helped me immensely.
It was started by a group of university graduates doing a large research project, and it grew from there. I was disappointed to see their name dragged through the mud when their claims were taken to court and they had to back track on some of the medical benefits they listed on the website, instead going with 'these are the comments of users' which was allowed. It unfortunately hit their financial backers and their project expansion ideas for mobiles were compromised. That was a few years ago. Sure business has picked up for them now. Proof is in the pudding.
It had such a huge impact on my recovery that I also gave a one year subscription to a family member who is long term ill. They found it immensely helpful but what is more important is that they went from being a non-participatory family member, to one who cooked a meal, did some cleaning and was able to get confidence back to engage with visitors more. It was wonderful to see their confidence grow. Complaints from the marital partner were 'stop playing those games' and come and do something useful. Eventually realisation that the 'games' were helping boost morale, and become more active in the household, gave appreciation to the lumosity function.
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I started on this being unable to correctly write a shopping list and be able to read it when I arrived at the shop. Now I am I the top 90th percent of those my age, I love to see the graphics revealing how I've changed. I have never been able to carry out the game that requires remembering names; can't do it so don't put myself through failure consistently. As I was physically weak as well today I am going to Zumba, do my brain training and help my son move house. Seems somewhat ordinary but I feel I'm living the dream! So good to see how wellI have improved on Luminosity. Let me know what you think. Cheers xxxx
Many thanks, I'll give it a go. Anything that helps!!
I tried and paid for the subscription version. My wife and daughter also gave it a go.
I found the tests very limiting and not much value beyond giving you a routine thing to do.
However, my wife, daughter and some Neuropsychologists have confirmed is that the test results and feedback are designed to give you a false sense of achievement to get you to pay for the full version. If you don't do as well in some sessions your scores will still increase and a bit like dating sites you will be told that there are lot of people in your group.
For some people it may work - very much like a placebo.
By "brain stimulation" it depends on what you mean and want to achieve. Is it to overcome some particular difficulty like cognitive skills or to get more independence ?
Most Neuropsychologists and Occupational Therapists will tell you that the best way to achieve these is by doing practical things that people can relate to, preferably things they could do before or even wanted to do.
e.g pre injury I used to be a very good cook but time never really allowed me. A while after my injury, I started cooking again and it was a disaster - trying to follow a recipe, remembering where I was, measuring, preparing the veg. At one point it took 3 hours to make a cottage pie! However, eventually got there and my cooking skills returned after about a year of practice and some spectacular failures! However, whilst it can easily be dismissed as "just cooking" in terms of rehab what i was working on was:
cognitive skills : planning and sequencing following a menu, measuring, timing etc.
Dexterity: cutting vegetables, stirring and presenting the food
Social skills: Actually going out and finding the ingredients and asking store staff about the items
It was the same with DIY skills, could barely do it but practiced and practiced
I would suggest you get in touch with a Neuropsychologist or OT and get them to work on a similar plan for your husband. Two things you have to take into account; being achievable and safe - even now when I cook, I sometimes have problems remembering to turn the gas on and off!
With respect I whole heartedly disagree with "For some people it may work - very much like a placebo. " - vocabulary exercises helped spelling, maths exercises helped logical brain, attention games refined focus. Far from a placebo.
Agreed, if you want physical development, you do physical things.
If you want mental development, you work the mental facility.
Proof is in the pudding. I was able to get a receptionist job for 4 hours based upon the maths and memory exercises in Lumosity. When I was on the job, recognising the 0-9 digits on the phone pad was still a challenge, and writing down a number the caller had given me on the phone was also slow and high intensity activity. I would however not have been able to achieve either of these major accomplishments, had it not been for doing daily drills for months, to retrain my brain to recognise numerics and vocabulary and mainly focus and finish a task.
Experiential evidence is perhaps more valid than opinion I find.
Why do I know it was lumosity that helped me? Because after I had developed the basic faculties back again via lumosity, I lost another part of my brain function, my vocabulary again. I went, over night, not being able to read complicated words, pronounce, or spell.
How did I fix it? I played scrabble for 8 hours per day for roughly 2.5 months. And used the free exercises on lumosity. And played yahtzee.
I have been working now since Feb every day, not one day off ill, in a global company performing a key function.
Recovery is very much about outlook. If you believe, you can achieve. If you take responsibility for your healing, you may be surprised at the results.
"Recovery is very much about outlook. If you believe, you can achieve" - that is the placebo effect
With a lot of repetition : )
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