Mindfulness training for children with ADHD and their parents

By Dr. David Rabiner | February 21, 2013

Mind­ful­ness train­ing is an approach for enhanc­ing men­tal health and alle­vi­at­ing men­tal health dif­fi­cul­ties that is based on east­ern med­i­ta­tion tech­niques. The focus of mind­ful­ness train­ing is to increase one’s aware­ness of the present moment, enhance the non-judg­­men­­tal obser­va­tion of one’s sur­round­ings, and decrease impul­sive and 

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Study: Cognitive Markers or Biomarkers to manage Cognitive Health across the Lifespan?

By SharpBrains | September 12, 2011 |

Pre­dict­ing Alzheimer’s Dis­ease More Accu­rate Through Cog­ni­tive Changes Than Bio­mark­ers (Med­ical News): “Mea­sur­ing peo­ple’s changes in cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties is a bet­ter pre­dic­tor of Alzheimer’s dis­ease than changes in bio­mark­ers, researchers from the Ben­i­to Men­ni Com­plex Assis­ten­cial en Salut Men­tal, Barcelona, Spain, report­ed in Archives of Gen­er­al Psy­chi­a­try, a JAMA jour­nal.” “The inves­ti­ga­tors used a range of…

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It’s Brain Awareness Week!

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 16, 2009

Reminder:  2009 Brain Aware­ness Week start­ed today. You can find excel­lent resources and a cal­en­dar of events, Here. Next time you are in a pub­lic space (per­haps now you are at home, as I am as I write these lines), look left, look in front, look right. Per­haps you can see some­one who would benefit…

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