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Study: Self-guided internet-delivered treatment can significantly reduce ADHD symptoms among adults

June 7, 2023 by Dr. David Rabiner Leave a Comment

Although ADHD was orig­i­nal­ly con­sid­ered to be a dis­or­der of child­hood, it has been clear for years that it also impacts adults. At least 60% of chil­dren diag­nosed with ADHD strug­gle with symp­toms into adult­hood and the esti­mat­ed preva­lence of ADHD in adults is between 4 and 5%.

As with chil­dren and teens, med­ica­tion treat­ment is exten­sive­ly used to treat ADHD in adults. Although med­ica­tion is a core treat­ment for adult ADHD, and helps many indi­vid­u­als, many con­tin­ue to expe­ri­ence impair­ment and some expe­ri­ence adverse effects that pre­clude ongo­ing med­ica­tion treat­ment. [Read more…] about Study: Self-guid­ed inter­net-deliv­ered treat­ment can sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduce ADHD symp­toms among adults

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: ADHD-Treatment, adult-AD/HD, awareness training, emotion regulation, goal-setting, inhibition training, internet-delivered, medication-treatment, MyADHD, planning, psychoeducation, psychological, psychological treatment

How the Arts transform our Brains, Bodies, and Minds

May 31, 2023 by Greater Good Science Center Leave a Comment

One of my favorite say­ings comes from David Thore­au: “My life has been the poem I would have writ / But I could not both live and utter it.” It speaks to the way that life and art are inter­twined, and how we gain so much from liv­ing life with a sense of beau­ty and aes­thet­ics in mind.

There are many ways art infus­es my own life—from singing and play­ing gui­tar to read­ing nov­els and attend­ing plays, which all help to improve my mood and enhance my sense of won­der with the world. Prob­a­bly, neu­roaes­thet­ics many of you feel the same way. Some of you may have felt you’ve even been saved by art.

[Read more…] about How the Arts trans­form our Brains, Bod­ies, and Minds

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: art, brain, heal, life, neuroaesthetics, Your Brain on Art

Final week to nominate teachers for the $1M Global Teacher Prize 2023

May 22, 2023 by The Varkey Foundation Leave a Comment

Dear friends,

We hope you are doing well.

There is now less than one week to go until appli­ca­tions and nom­i­na­tions close for the Glob­al Teacher Prize, and we want­ed to ask you to help us spread the word. The Glob­al Teacher Prize serves to under­line the impor­tance of edu­ca­tors and the fact that, through­out the world, their efforts deserve to be recog­nised and cel­e­brat­ed. It seeks to acknowl­edge the impact of the very best teach­ers – not only on their stu­dents but on the com­mu­ni­ties around them. [Read more…] about Final week to nom­i­nate teach­ers for the $1M Glob­al Teacher Prize 2023

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Education & Lifelong Learning, Global Teacher Prize, teachers, Varkey Foundation

Smartphone-based cognitive behavioral therapy found to significantly decrease insomnia, substantially outperforming sleep education

May 17, 2023 by SharpBrains Leave a Comment

Dig­i­tal Ther­a­py for Insom­nia More Effec­tive Than Sleep Edu­ca­tion, Study Finds (Amer­i­can Jour­nal of Man­aged Care):

A smart­phone-based, Chi­nese culture­–adapted dig­i­tal cog­ni­tive behav­ioral ther­a­py for insom­nia (DCBT‑I) appli­ca­tion improved insom­nia sever­i­ty com­pared with sleep edu­ca­tion, accord­ing to find­ings of a study pub­lished in JAMA Net­work Open.

Researchers want­ed to study the effi­ca­cy of this DCBT‑I app com­pared with sleep edu­ca­tion using the same app … “To our knowl­edge, this is the first RCT [ran­dom­ized clin­i­cal tri­al] in which the con­trol group received sleep edu­ca­tion pro­vid­ed using the same inter­face as an inter­ven­tion,” said the researchers. [Read more…] about Smart­phone-based cog­ni­tive behav­ioral ther­a­py found to sig­nif­i­cant­ly decrease insom­nia, sub­stan­tial­ly out­per­form­ing sleep education

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Chinese, cognitive-behavioral-therapy, DCBT-I, digital cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, insomnia, insomnia severity, randomized clinical trial, sleep education

Should doctors prescribe lecanemab (Leqembi) to women? The answer, given available evidence, is probably No

May 10, 2023 by Prof. Michael Valenzuela Leave a Comment

Data from the CLARITY tri­al ear­li­er this year was sup­posed to be the crown­ing glo­ry of the amy­loid hypoth­e­sis, vin­di­ca­tion for pro­po­nents of this long-held but much-maligned the­o­ry of Alzheimer’s disease.

Yet the results left many feel­ing under­whelmed, and even the study authors noncommittal.

The CLARITY tri­al has many admirable fea­tures. It recruit­ed close to 1800 peo­ple from around the world, pret­ty bal­anced between women and men. While the major­i­ty were white, 17% of the cohort was Asian and 12% Latino.

Choice of pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary out­comes were impec­ca­ble. The pri­ma­ry out­come was the Clin­i­cal Demen­tia Rat­ing sum of box­es (CDR-SB), a score­card of sorts rat­ed by a clin­i­cian across the domains of mem­o­ry, ori­en­ta­tion, prob­lem solv­ing, com­mu­ni­ty affairs, home duties and per­son­al care. Sec­ondary out­comes includ­ed stan­dard mea­sures of glob­al cog­ni­tion, dai­ly func­tion, as well as bio­mark­ers in the brain, from the CSF and blood.

So what hap­pened? [Read more…] about Should doc­tors pre­scribe lecanemab (Leqem­bi) to women? The answer, giv­en avail­able evi­dence, is prob­a­bly No

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: amyloid, amyloid antibodies, amyloid removal, CLARITY trial, Clinical Dementia Rating, immunotherapy, lecanemab, Leqembi, women

Study shows the power of electroencephalography and machine learning to help predict response to psychotherapy (or lack thereof) in patients with PTSD

May 2, 2023 by SharpBrains Leave a Comment

A fas­ci­nat­ing study just pub­lished in Nature Men­tal Health aimed at help­ing pre­dict the out­comes of psy­chother­a­py for patients with Post-Trau­mat­ic Stress Dis­or­der (PTSD) using Machine Learn­ing (ML) and elec­troen­cephalog­ra­phy (EEG) data.

PTSD is a men­tal health con­di­tion trig­gered by expe­ri­enc­ing or wit­ness­ing a trau­mat­ic event; two evi­dence-based treatments–Prolonged Expo­sure (PE) and Cog­ni­tive Pro­cess­ing Ther­a­py (CPT)–are com­mon­ly used to help patients, with var­ied results.

In this study, the researchers used a super­vised machine learn­ing approach and high-den­si­ty rest­ing-state EEG (rsEEG) record­ings to pre­dict indi­vid­ual psy­chother­a­py out­comes. They iden­ti­fied a pre­treat­ment EEG con­nec­tiv­i­ty sig­na­ture in the eyes-open theta fre­quen­cy range that was pre­dic­tive of patients’ respons­es to both PE and CPT. [Read more…] about Study shows the pow­er of elec­troen­cephalog­ra­phy and machine learn­ing to help pre­dict response to psy­chother­a­py (or lack there­of) in patients with PTSD

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Alto Neuroscience, cognitive processing therapy, digital biomarker, electroencephalography, posttraumatic stress disorder, precision psychiatry, prolonged exposure, Psychotherapy, PTSD

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