Attention deficits: drugs, therapy, cognitive training

Shel­ley launched a good dis­cus­sion on The Neu­ro­science of ADHD in her blog, dis­cussing the sit­u­a­tion and pro­vid­ing a tech­ni­cal overview of drug-based inter­ven­tions. Some­thing I had­n’t heard is that “For exam­ple, babies born pre­ma­ture­ly face a sig­nif­i­cant­ly greater risk of devel­op­ing ADHD than full-term babies (socioe­co­nom­ic sta­tus was con­trolled for).” Which helps me better…

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Working Memory Training from a pediatrician perspective, focused on attention deficits

Today we inter­view Dr. Arthur Lavin, Asso­ciate Clin­i­cal Pro­fes­sor of Pedi­atrics at Case West­ern School of Med­i­cine, pedi­a­tri­cian in pri­vate prac­tice, and one of the first providers of Cogmed Work­ing Mem­o­ry Train­ing in the US (the pro­gram whose research we dis­cussed with Dr. Torkel Kling­berg and Dr. Bradley Gib­son). Dr. Lavin has a long standing…

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Cognitive Psychology readings

Kevin brings a new edi­tion of the IQs Cor­ner Head­lines from the Brain and Mind Blog­sphere. Worth read­ing if you are inter­est­ed in cog­ni­tive and edu­ca­tion­al psy­chol­o­gy. A few recent blog car­ni­vals: the always great Tan­gled Bank (Gen­er­al Sci­ence), and new edi­tions of Brain Blog­ging and Atten­tion Deficit Dis­or­der. Have a great cel­e­bra­tion today!

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Cogmed Working Memory Training

Notre Dame Pro­fes­sor Bradley Gib­son, whom we inter­viewed a few months ago (see below) pre­sent­ed the results from his study recent­ly at the Soci­ety for Research in Child Devel­op­ment (SRCD): Uni­ver­si­ty of Notre Dame Pro­fes­sor and Research Team are First in U.S. to Val­i­date Break­through Study on the Effec­tive­ness of Work­ing Mem­o­ry Train­ing in Improving…

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