Have you heard about the recent phenomenon for training your brain? Imagine discovering that your brain has aged faster than you! Well, with a bit of training, you could soon have a brain ten years your junior (theoretically!).  The challenge of this latest console is to reduce your brain age.  So if you need to give your brain a workout (I often do!) then check it out and find out for yourself what all the fuss is about.  I’d like to know what people who’ve tried it think about it because I could do with increasing my mental awareness and improving my memory (I have been known to get to the shop only to forget what the item that I so desperately needed when I left the house!)

The exercises are quick challenges that help stimulate your brain and you write your answers with the stylus on the touch screen. There’s a combination of arithmetic, reading and memory tests, and the program calculates your score in the form of a ‘brain age’ by assessing the speed and accuracy by which you perform these simple tasks. There are claims that this computer game craze could even slow the onset of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease - if that’s the case, I’m certainly willing to give it a go!