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Patients with brain injuries may be able to derive benefits from modern brain training games, a new study suggests.

Researchers at London Metropolitan University discovered there was a significant improvement in patients' memory recall abilities after playing a brain training game on an iPhone.

Participants were generally very favourable about the games, finding them to be engaging and fun to play.

The results of the study were presented on April 16th at the British Psychological Society's Annual Conference in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Dr Simon Moore said it is "really interesting" that people with brain injuries both benefited from and enjoyed the games.

"We hope that they can become part of treatment programmes that improve brain-injured patients' independence and self-fulfilment," he added.

In other news, Lisa Klindt Simpson of Children's Hospital Wisconsin has stated in an article for WauwatosaNow that children who ride a bike can reduce their risk of a severe brain injury by 88 per cent, just by wearing a helmet.

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