Posts Tagged ‘brain-scans’
Study: Brain scans may predict depression risk better than clinical rating scales, paving the way for earlier preventive treatments
Brain Scans Could Identify Kids at Risk of Depression (Smithsonian): “One of the most frightening aspects of depression is the fact that, once someone suffers a depressive episode, they’re very likely to have another. And depression itself often brings other ills, from substance abuse to heart disease
Read MoreStudy: Structural brain differences due to childhood poverty may account for 20% of the academic achievement gap
. Brain scans reveal how poverty hurts children’s brains (Bloomberg): “Growing up poor has long been linked to lower academic test scores. And there’s now mounting evidence that it’s partly because kids can suffer real physical consequences from low family incomes, including brains that are less equipped to learn.
Read MoreStudy: Long-term meditation can help slow down aging-related brain volume decline
. Long-term meditation tied to less brain loss (Reuters): “People who reported meditating for an average of 20 years had higher brain volumes than the average person, researchers report in Frontiers in Psychology. Kurth and his colleagues write that they can’t say meditation caused its practitioners to lose less brain volume, however. Other habits of…
Read MoreResearch trend: The brain benefits of learning and speaking a second language
— What happens in the brain when you learn a language? (The Guardian): “Learning a foreign language can increase the size of your brain. This is what Swedish scientists discovered when they used brain scans to monitor what happens when someone learns a second language. The study is part of
Read MoreThe neuroscience of positive, vision-based coaching
Good coaches get results, respect, and awards. But what makes a coach or mentor good? One school of thought says they should hold their mentees to specific performance benchmarks and help them reach those benchmarks by targeting their personal weaknesses. But new research suggests a different tack—namely, to nurture a mentee’s strengths, aspirations for the future,…
Read MoreCognitive therapy or medication? Brain scans may help personalize treatments
Predicting How Patients Respond to Therapy (press release): “A new study led by MIT neuroscientists has found that brain scans of patients with social anxiety disorder can help predict whether they will benefit from cognitive behavioral therapy…Social anxiety is usually treated with either cognitive behavioral therapy or medications. However,
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