Research has already shown that grass-fed beef has a higher omega-3 content (with less omega-6) than corn-fed beef; so it stands to corn-fed fish will have the same high omege-6 content. I’d be interested in seeing how naturally raised tilapia rates.

Regarding the neurons in the PFC that correspond to keeping the bird and the letter in memory: do these active neurons actually represent the letter and the bird, or are the representations elsewhere in the brain and the PFC neurons are just associated with the representations that are elsewhere?

It seemed that the blog post said the first interpretation is correct, but I have trouble understanding how the PFC could represent absolutely anything that is in working memory (auditory, visual, olfactory, etc.) when different types of phenomena usually are represented in different parts of the brain. If the PFC merely registered that the representations are active and related them to each other or bound them together, and if the actual representations elsewhere were pointed to from the PFC, that would make more sense to me, but that’s just my uneducated intuition.

Thanks for any further explanation.

i was given the proscience brain fitness program that works with hearing as a gift. although it’s a very effective program, i ended up with terrible headaches whenever i tried working with it consistently.

i stopped doing brain exercises with a computer interface until discovering lumosity. first, lumosity allowed me to test out the program. this was great!!

the structure of the lumosity program, allowed me to could pace myself, observe effects, and learn the best way for me to build capacity. eventually i decided to treat these brain exercises the same way i treat exercise from the neck down.

due to health issues, i have to add other kinds of exercise very carefully — in tiny, tiny increments, with at least a week to integrate any addition. so i used the lumosity program to slooowly increase the number of games i could play at one sitting.

starting out playing only part of a lumosity game, getting up to walk around or get a drink, and going back to it, i worked towards being able to play the whole game. then i limited myself to a single game for a week.

at the beginning i didn’t notice the discomfort and difficulties. i had habitually pushed through them for so long that i no could longer recognize what was happening inside me.

when i first added the next game, i made sure that there was an interval of at least four hours between games, again maintaining this schedule for a week once it became comfortable.

the next step was to play both games back to back for a week. then another was added at least half a day later. and i continued this step-wise process until i could play a whole training sequence at one sitting.

in this way i built up my brain’s capacity to handle the physiological demands of the changes these games promote. gradually the lumosity games have become as important to my sense of well being as physical exercise.

in the process, i also learned to recognize and honor bodily needs that had been ignored for far too long. now i can see the problems coming with enough forewarning to keep them from becoming distresses. this is an awfully important fringe benefit for me.

a whole lumosity training session takes as long as a single componenet of the brain fitness program. after a month of comfortably working with that level of lumosity games, i started adding pieces of the other program a little bit at a time. i want to be able to participate in conversations in noisy environments again.

i gradually built the capacity to do one 15-minute bfp session at a time. but the lumosity program is still essential to my progress. my brain needs to be treated at least as well as a horse. you cool a horse after running by walking for a while to help everything inside slow down to maintenance level. that’s how i use the lumosity games.

without lumosity, i still get painful headaches from the brain fitness program, no matter how slowly and carefully i proceed. with lumosity, i can do both without negative effects, and i really enjoy the way the lumosity games make me feel.

it took patience, persistence and time to get to the point where i can say that i really enjoy these games. it was well worth it.

sandi