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

By Dr. David Rabiner | June 7, 2023

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…

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

By SharpBrains | May 17, 2023

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…

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

By Prof. Michael Valenzuela | May 10, 2023

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…

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

By SharpBrains | May 2, 2023

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…

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On the 7 Habits of Highly Stress-Resilient Minds, cognitive screenings, anti-amyloid drugs, and more

By SharpBrains | April 27, 2023

Wel­come to a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains e‑newsletter, this time cov­er­ing the lat­est devel­op­ments in stress research, med­i­ta­tion, vir­tu­al real­i­ty, anti-amy­loid drugs, cog­ni­tive screen­ings, and more. #1. The 7 Habits of High­ly Stress-Resilient Minds “Any­thing worth doing will have aspects of stress woven through: chal­lenge, dis­com­fort, risk. We can’t change that. But what we can change is…

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