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Academy's innovative pick-up-and-play control scheme promises to make the games accessible and fun for players of all ages and abilities.Based upon the phenomenal success of these games in the Japanese market, we're predicting big things for brain-training here.

In fact considering how damn smart the Japanese folk must be to invent the concept, it's our patriotic duty to play just to keep the British end up!

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Academy is expected to launch in Europe and the US in the next few months.

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Petersburg and did not notice the corpse hanging out his windshield until a toll booth operator stopped him.

A frightening headline, acknowledges Ken Brummel-Smith, chairman of Geriatrics at the Florida State University College of Medicine.

But it doesn't paint a realistic picture of the senior driver population.

"The problems are pretty much restricted to a small number of older people," Brummel-Smith said.

"Reality is, older people recognize changes in their health and adjust accordingly by driving fewer miles, and when traffic is less." Crash studies paint conflicting pictures of elderly drivers.

In 2004, the Florida crash rate for drivers in their 80s and older was lower than the rate for drivers in their 30s, state highway department statistics show.

Yet older drivers have higher rates of fatal crashes than all but the youngest drivers, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

"Fragility" starts as early as age 60, the institute's report on 2004 fatalities says.

By 75, older drivers are "markedly overinvolved in crashes." For seniors who have driving problems, eyesight is not usually the root cause, Brummel-Smith said.

More common causes are changes in mental functioning and reaction times.

"Vision tests aren't an effective way to deal with the problem," he said.

"It's an easy one because you can require them, and it's easy to do and doesn't cost very much." Ashkar said he will quit if a doctor tells him not to drive.

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However, such an indicator can also be a precursor of infection or other genuine, verifiable physical illness.

Quick onset of confusion or behavior change is a well-known symptom of an infection to those of us working in the nursing-home settings.

While we do respond to their symptoms, conscientious professionals do not just medicate without real evidence of what is happening with the patient.

Lab test are done to confirm our suspicions and the correct antibiotic is prescribed AFTER proper medical testing is done.

It is appalling that a child can be prescribed mind-altering, potentially deadly drugs for ADHD with no certainty that they even have an illness.

The practice of psychiatry diverges greatly from science of medicine.

Objective medical testing is not required before treatment is prescribed.

If ADHD is a physical illness, how can it be that a psychologist can diagnosis it?

Would a psychologist diagnose heart disease, diabetes or cancer?

This may be undeniable proof that "mental illness" is not physical in nature.

The public must demand full informed consent in the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of "mental illness".

Patients must be given complete testing and competent medical care.

Full informed consent would include the true statement that "mental illness" like ADHD may be caused by genuine physical illness and is treatable by medical, non-psychiatric means.

It would inform patients and parents that a label of "mental illness" can be a permanent mark o...