Posts Tagged ‘attention-problems’
Six guidelines to navigate the Aduhelm controversy and (hopefully) help patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and early-stage Alzheimer’s Disease
The approval of a controversial new drug for Alzheimer’s disease, Aduhelm, is shining a spotlight on mild cognitive impairment — problems with memory, attention, language or other cognitive tasks that exceed changes expected with normal aging. After initially indicating that Aduhelm could be prescribed to anyone with dementia, the Food and Drug Administration now specifies that…
Read MoreStudy shows why children with ADHD should be reevaluated each year: Attention problems perceived by teachers are far less stable than we imagine
— While the study below was published a few years ago, it makes an important point that I think is worth revisiting. In the study, published in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, my colleagues and I looked at how frequently teacher ratings of inattentive symptoms persist in children from one grade to the…
Read MoreWorking Memory Training can Influence Brain Biochemistry
I wanted to alert you to a very interesting finding published in a recent issue of Science, one of the world’s leading scientific journals. The study was led by Dr. Torkel Klingberg and his colleagues from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. The goal was to learn whether Working Memory Training is associated with changes in…
Read MoreSelf-Regulation and Barkley’s Theory of ADHD
Barkley’s theory has been widely recognized as a significant advance in our thinking about ADHD that helps to organize a vast body of literature and clinical observations about the disorder.
Read MoreHow Strong is the Research Support for Neurofeedback in Attention Deficits?
Neurofeedback enables people to make better informed decision. It helps brain development in children and kids.
Read MorePhysical and Mental Exercise: Why Pitch One Against the other?
Reader Theresa Cerulli just forwarded this Letter to the Editor that she had sent to the New York Times and went unpublished. The letter addresses the OpEd mentioned here (pitching physical vs. mental exercise), and refers to the Cogmed working memory training program, whose results have been studied in multiple papers published in top medical…
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