BBC, in collaboration with The Alzheimer’s Society in England is going to run tests to verify whether brain training can help prevent Alzheimer’s disease and dementia and improve “mental fitness”. The two organizations will be jointly running the program in order to assess the benefits that patients of these ailments can gain from mind training sessions using hand held electronic devices.

The test has also launched a program on the BBC1 channel as part of the test regime, on a show named “Bang Goes the Theory”. The results observed initially by the researchers of the program, who are from Cambridge University and King’s College, London, will be released to the public early next year. However, tests will continue for about nine months after that, just to ensure the effects last for a long enough time period to be of any real significance.

Richard McCourt, a popular presenter of Children’s TV and an Alzheimer’s Society ambassador, told the Daily Express, “I always wondered if any of these brain-training gadgets and games really work. I’m looking forward to being trained up and finding out more about how our brains function. The more we know about the brain, the nearer we’ll come to finding a cure for dementia – and that’s the reason why I want to be involved”.