The Brain Fitness Program | 
| Director: Eli Brown
Actor: Peter Coyote
Studio: PBS (DIRECT)
List Price: $24.99
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 5414
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: UBRN601
UPC: 841887009096
EAN: 0841887009096
ASIN: B0012M1KW2
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: February 19, 2008
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Product Description
The Brain Fitness Program is based on the brain's ability to change and adapt, even rewire itself. In the past two years, a team of scientists has developed computer-based stimulus sets that drive beneficial chemical, physical and functional changes in the brain. Dr. Michael Merzenich of the University of California and his colleagues share their scientifically-based set of brain exercises in this life-altering program.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 DVD is NOT a brain training program, it's an infomercial for one. March 6, 2008
requin (Massachusetts)
72 out of 74 found this review helpful
I donated to PBS and got the set of Brain Training items. This dvd is just the PBS program all over again. It is NOT a brain training program with exercises you can do, etc. It's talking heads plugging how great their program is. It's marginally interesting on first viewing but I can't see wanting to watch it again. Just watch it on PBS and save your money.
The actual brain program this dvd touts is very expensive and available on the website. It came w/ my donation and it's very well made, but is truly boring, as the other reviewer stated, I dread doing it (and in fact, haven't in a week or more). It's focus is auditory not visual which is ok but it'd be better if it had both. I haven't done it enough to give a thorough review of it or it's benefits.
 Great Video - Get a Life - Good for Seniors March 8, 2008
B. Mitchell (adirondacks, ny)
49 out of 55 found this review helpful
This DVD is a bargin, especially for seniors like myself.
In my opinion, applying these findings to one's life style is one of the best ways to stay young and engaged.
I could not digest all this information in one viewing so the dvd really comes in handy because one of the foundations in learning new skills is repetition.
The DVD shows that science can now provide images of what parts of the brain are engaged when the subject is performing various mental tasks. I found is really interesting as it provides more facts about how our brains actually work. My hearing could be better, but I turned captioning off on the TV (my eyes were replacing my ears). Now i try harder with my ears, ha,ha.
Yeah! New challanges for learning; I recently got a new digital camera and find that the more I use it the more motivated I become in learning how to take and make great images and then view them in hidef on the new TV. Build those synapse connections! Yeah.
One last point, the program stresses keeping your heart strong. I hike 3-4 miles every day, its not hard once one gets out, yes, it does take time, but my dog and camera come along also, so its not boring (for me), and I see and enjoy much more walking than I ever did driving.
Brainy Boredom March 8, 2008
Amaranth (Northern California)
29 out of 34 found this review helpful
The "Brain Fitness Program" has a good motive--- to keep people's minds nimble and fit. Exercising the mind IS important, and unfortunately, neglected. "Brain Fitness" manages to blend an otherwise good idea and common sense with pseudo-science and a boring presentation.
"Brain Fitness" is mainly lots of talking heads (this is a PBS program,after all!) Peter Coyote,once prominent in the hippie/psychedelic movement and the world of mind-altering substances,provides lackluster narration. He's as bored out of his mind as the hapless viewer.
"Brain Fitness" doesn't address the tricky question of brain chemistry. It naively suggests that their repetitive exercises can miraculously help people recover from strokes, dementia, and OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) They tell the story of a widower who suffered from a stroke. Through the exercises, he miraculously recovered and is now happily remarried. It's presented as a cure-all! If you can sit through it.
"Brain Fitness Program" takes an otherwise good concept, presents it in a dull infomercial way,and backs it up with pseudo-science. Read a book instead.
 Another "extreme plasticiry" scam! March 10, 2008
DAA
20 out of 33 found this review helpful
Once again the science of the brain is being spinned and twisted in order for some one to make money out of it. I watched this entire thing on PBS. It's the same old trick, taking bits of scientific facts about how the brain works and completly infering all the wrong conclusions. "plasticity" (the ability of the brain to learn) is nothing new! Anybody who can remember what they had for lunch can understand this since that expericence had to leave some phyiscial trace in the brain in order to remember it. Explaining the phyiscal process behind this ability to learn, and then pretend like this is all some new scientific discoveries about how the brain is mallable in any shape or form is extremly deceiving and quite sleazy. My advice is to stay away from this dogma based nonsense.. save your money!
The Brain Fitness Program April 18, 2008
Kathryn A. Hunter
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
After watching the program on PBS, I thought the DVD would have the brain exercises, which it didn't. I was disappointed.
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