Trend: Growing interest in (and questions around) brain training centers for kids with special needs

By SharpBrains | January 13, 2020

___ Par­ents pay thou­sands for ‘brain train­ing’ to help kids with ADHD and autism. But does it work? (NBC News): “…As the num­ber of chil­dren diag­nosed with ADHD and autism surges in the U.S., accord­ing to fed­er­al data, and as par­ents become exas­per­at­ed with treat­ments that don’t work or involve med­ica­tions that car­ry the risk of…

Read More

How to address privacy, ethical and regulatory issues: Examples in cognitive enhancement, depression and ADHD

By SharpBrains | July 23, 2019

? How to address pri­va­cy, eth­i­cal and reg­u­la­to­ry issues: Exam­ples in cog­ni­tive enhance­ment, depres­sion and ADHD from Sharp­Brains We hope you enjoy this slid­edeck sup­port­ing a great ses­sion at the 2019 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: The Future of Brain Health (March 7–9th).  Full record­ings are avail­able for pur­chase here. 1–2.30pm. How to address pri­va­cy, eth­i­cal and reg­u­la­to­ry issues: Examples…

Read More

Lack of sleep seen to cause sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) in adolescents with attention deficits

By Dr. David Rabiner | March 27, 2019

___ It is esti­mat­ed that up to 75% of youth with ADHD have sleep prob­lems. And, exper­i­men­tal stud­ies that manip­u­late sleep quan­ti­ty have demon­strat­ed a causal link between sleep and ADHD behav­ior in chil­dren. How­ev­er, there has been no pri­or work in which sleep dura­tion has been manip­u­lat­ed in ado­les­cents diag­nosed with ADHD. 

Read More

Study: Brief sleep intervention provides enduring benefits to children with ADHD

By Dr. David Rabiner | February 7, 2019

Sleep prob­lems are com­mon in chil­dren with ADHD, are more per­sis­tent than in the gen­er­al pop­u­la­tion, and often exac­er­bate dif­fi­cul­ties asso­ci­at­ed with ADHD. For exam­ple, poor sleep can enhance dif­fi­cul­ties with atten­tion and con­cen­tra­tion that most youth with ADHD expe­ri­ence. Research has shown that brief sleep inter­ven­tions can improve sleep in youth with­out ADHD who…

Read More

Brain training seen as promising non-pharmacological method to enhance attention in healthy young adults

By SharpBrains | February 1, 2019

This brain train­ing app may help you stay focused, says new study (CNN): “Our dig­i­tal lives make con­cen­tra­tion difficult…A group of Cam­bridge uni­ver­si­ty researchers believes to have devel­oped a “fun” solu­tion to this mod­ern prob­lem. By play­ing a “brain train­ing” game, called Decoder, play­ers can increase their concentration.

Read More

If you or your kid have ADHD, do have a treatment monitoring plan in place for the New Year?

By Dr. David Rabiner | January 11, 2019 |

When a child is diag­nosed with ADHD, par­ents con­front the dif­fi­cult deci­sion about which treatment(s) to pur­sue to best help their child suc­ceed. While decid­ing on an ini­tial treat­ment plan is impor­tant, equal­ly impor­tant is estab­lish­ing a plan to mon­i­tor how well that treat­ment is work­ing on a sus­tained basis, regard­less of what spe­cif­ic treatment(s)…

Read More