Peak - an app that improves memory and reduces the risk of Alzheimer's

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

To become more attentive, more focused, and improve your problem solving skills, all you need to do is download the Peak app.

A pumped-up body has recently become fashionable, a trained brain has been attractive at all times. Now a personal trainer for the mind, who will create an individual training program, can be carried in your pocket.

Peak is a set of brain training puzzles. The mini-games are divided into groups based on objectives. The choice of exercises for memory, quick thinking, language skills, attentiveness, emotionality and problem-solving skills.

How to play

After installation, the application will ask you to specify your gender, age, education level and profession. This is necessary in order to offer suitable workouts. You can choose what exactly you want to develop.

Then a test awaits you. The app guides you through the four basic games, evaluating your abilities and skill levels. The exercises seem simple, but you have to think about them.

Word Fresh

On the field there are English letters. With the movement of your finger, they must be combined into words. If successful, the selected cubes will disappear, new ones will fall in their place. If you choose a random set of letters, they will be highlighted in red and will remain in place. There are no penalties for error.

This exercise helps train the brain and learn the language, but it will be difficult for a beginner to master. It takes a little thought to form long words. But the game is played for a time that may end before the inspiration comes.

Low Pop

The second exercise seems to be a game for preschoolers: you need to click on the numbers in ascending order. It becomes more difficult when negative numbers appear on the field. Training makes you remember your junior school course and be more attentive.

Perilous path

First, bombs appear on the screen for a few seconds. Then they disappear, there are two points on the field. You need to remember where the mines are, and pave a safe path from point A to point B. With each next round, the game becomes more and more difficult.

Must sort

In this game, you need to click on the symbol shown on the first card. Sorting the figurines is fun and easy, although it takes concentration.

Then the daily activity will be formed from four different games.

Workout diary

The app shows the points scored for the game, as well as individual achievements for each type of training. Through statistics, you can identify weaknesses and focus on them.

To exercise regularly, you can set reminders. The days and times when notifications will be received are offered to be selected independently. Peak recommends exercising three times a week.

Paid version features

By default, the app offers four games and one workout per day. The payer gets access to 41 exercises, additional training plans, more detailed statistics and the ability to play without quantitative restrictions.

Among the training plans are several games that provide an opportunity to tighten up weak points or quickly raise a rating.

Paid access to the App Store will cost 379 rubles per month and 2 640 rubles per year; on Google Play - 100 and 750 rubles, respectively. You can also buy a lifetime version: for RUB 1,500 on Android or RUB 7,490 on iOS.

Why Brain Training Games Are Needed

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have shown that brain training games improve memory and reduce the risk of dementia. They conducted a study in which 42 patients over 45 years of age with moderate memory impairment were involved. They were asked to play a game on the iPad where they had to collect coins, remembering where they were and thinking about strategies.

Half of the participants in the experiment did not play games at all. The rest spent two hours a week with the tablet. As a result, the players' episodic memory improved by 40%. They began to remember where they put the keys or where they parked the car.

It has yet to be proven that brain training games can cure Alzheimer's. But as a treatment for the early symptoms of dementia, their use looks promising.

Tara Spiers-Jones Acting Head of the Center for Cognitive and Neural Systems at the University of Edinburgh

One of the researchers at the University of Cambridge, Professor Barbara Sahakian (Barbara Sahakian), noted that the game allows you to personalize the training program of patients and make it fun.

Summary

It's not very difficult to play Peak, but it's fun. With each next workout, the results improve, which will please gambling people. The exercises are not time-consuming, but they do require total immersion.

And research results show that now you can not only run away from a heart attack, but also play against dementia.