The brain fitness program
(DVD) 

Originally produced in 2007.

Special features: Alzheimer's discussion; Parkinson's; Blindfold experiment; Man without memory; Hebb's rats; Wilder Penfield; Pioneers; Sensory substitution; Phantom limbs; Meditation; What we can do; Brain facts.

Photography, Jim Hoppin, Michael Freeman, Eli Brown ; editing, Jim Hoppin ; open animation by The Agency Collective.

Host, Peter Coyote; commentators, Sharon Begley, William Jagust, Arthur Toga, Michael Merzenich, Shannon Moffett, Jason Karlawish, Norman Doidge, Valerie Wallace, John Barnes, Edward Taub, Christopher Lynch, Cheryl Lynch, George Bach-y-Rita.

If you are fifty years old today, you will probably live into your mid-eighties. If you live into your mid-eighties, there is a more than even probability that your brain will decline in function before you die. Over fifty neuroscientists have worked to create a system for strengthening the brain and making it perform with more agility, speed, and comprehension. The Brain Fitness Program is based on the concepts of neuroplasticity--the ability of the brain to change, adapt, and even rewire itself. The brain remains highly malleable or 'plastic' throughout life and by presenting the brain with the proper stimuli, scientists assert that this can drive beneficial physical and functional change. This program can help with understanding how the brain works, and how to keep it fit.

TV parental guidelines rating: Not rated.

DVD; Region 1, NTSC; widescreen presentation, enhanced for 16x9 televisions.

Closed-captioned.