Games of all sorts have been used as a learning tool since teaching began.  Recent advances in the sophistication and usefulness of modern Brain Training games are showing some surprising results in an especially vulnerable group - those with a brain injury.

A recent study conducted by Linton Khor, a PhD student in the Department of Psychology at London Metropolitan University, has shown that playing a memory game for just 15 minutes on a handheld electronic device (iPhone) significantly improved their subsequent recall on a traditional memory task favoured by psychologists.

Participants from Headway East London, a brain injury charity, were overwhelmingly favourable to the games as they perceived them as fun and engaging and stated they would continue to use such mobile memory games, as it gave them the freedom to keep working on a problem they wished to improve.

The aim of the study was to check on the usefulness, mobility and enjoyment had by playing these games - and to allow for greater exploration outside of a clinical setting, with the hope to improve brain injured patients’ independence and self-fulfilment.