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UT Dallas researcher secures $2.7m grant to better monitor and address TBI-related cognitive and functional deficits

January 18, 2017 by UT Dallas

-- Drs. Dan Krawczyk and Kihwan Han review MRI scans. Credit: Center for BrainHealth, Randy Anderson
– Drs. Dan Kraw­czyk and Kih­wan Han review MRI scans. Cred­it: Cen­ter for Brain­Health, Randy Anderson

Sci­en­tist Gets Grant for Study of Vet­er­ans with Trau­mat­ic Brain Injuries (UT Dal­las release):

A researcher from the Cen­ter for Brain­Health at UT Dal­las has been award­ed a $2.7 mil­lion grant from the Depart­ment of Defense (DoD) under the Joint Warfight­er Med­ical Research Program.

The grant, award­ed to Dr. Daniel Kraw­czyk, deputy direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Brain­Health, will fund research, via a vir­tu­al tech­nol­o­gy plat­form, to improve cog­ni­tive and func­tion­al deficits for [Read more…] about UT Dal­las researcher secures $2.7m grant to bet­ter mon­i­tor and address TBI-relat­ed cog­ni­tive and func­tion­al deficits

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Applied Research Associates, Brain-Imaging, BrainHealth, chronic TBI, cognitive-control, cognitive-deficits, cognitive-performance, cognitive-rehabilitation, Department of Defense, DoD, Expedition, functional deficits, improve cognitive difficulties, medical research, neuropsychological, planning, Serious-Games, TBI, Traumatic-Brain-Injury, UT-Dallas, veterans, virtual technology platform, Virtual-Heroes, Working-memory

Study: Cognitive deficits continue long term in cancer survivors in domains important for social and executive functioning

January 21, 2016 by SharpBrains

elderly_senior_memory_loss_confusionCog­ni­tive Deficits Con­tin­ue Long Term in Can­cer Sur­vivors (Med­scape):

“Although can­cer patients fre­quent­ly expe­ri­ence short-term cog­ni­tive deficits, lit­tle is known about how long these deficits last or whether they wors­en over time. Now, data from a large nation­al sam­ple sug­gest that cog­ni­tive deficits may per­sist long term. [Read more…] about Study: Cog­ni­tive deficits con­tin­ue long term in can­cer sur­vivors in domains impor­tant for social and exec­u­tive functioning

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: age, and learning, attention, cancer, cancer-survivors, cognition, cognitive-deficits, cognitive-function, Executive-Functions, processing-speed, quality-of-life, Working-memory

Study: Why Super Mario 3D World may train your brain better than Angry Birds

December 9, 2015 by SharpBrains

Stark_151124_01_1500_szPlay­ing 3‑D video games can boost mem­o­ry for­ma­tion, UCI study finds (UCI News):

“…Craig Stark and Dane Clemen­son of UCI’s Cen­ter for the Neu­ro­bi­ol­o­gy of Learn­ing & Mem­o­ry recruit­ed non-gamer col­lege stu­dents to play either a video game with a pas­sive, two-dimen­sion­al envi­ron­ment (“Angry Birds”) or one with an intri­cate, 3‑D set­ting (“Super Mario 3D World”) for 30 min­utes per day over two weeks. [Read more…] about Study: Why Super Mario 3D World may train your brain bet­ter than Angry Birds

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: 3-D, angry birds, brain training programs, Brain-Training, cognition, cognitive, cognitive-deficits, college students, dana-foundation, hippocampus, Learning, memory, memory-test, neurobiology, neuroplasticity, Super Mario 3D World, video-game

Study: Internet-based screening can help detect aging-related cognitive deficits

December 3, 2014 by SharpBrains

Cogniciti_assessment—

We just came across a new and fas­ci­nat­ing sci­en­tific paper, titled Devel­op­ment and eval­u­a­tion of a self-admin­is­tered on-line test of mem­o­ry and atten­tion for mid­dle-aged and old­er adults, and pub­lished at Fron­tiers in Aging Neu­ro­science. Here is the very read­able abstract:

“There is a need for rapid and reli­able Inter­net-based screen­ing tools for cog­ni­tive assess­ment in mid­dle-aged and old­er adults. We report the psy­cho­me­t­ric prop­er­ties of an on-line tool designed to screen for cog­ni­tive deficits that [Read more…] about Study: Inter­net-based screen­ing can help detect aging-relat­ed cog­ni­tive deficits

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Cogniciti, cognition, cognitive--disorders, cognitive-assessment, cognitive-deficits, executive-attention, Internet-based assessment, memory, psychometric evaluation

Can neuroplasticity-based interventions address tinnitus-related cognitive deficits?

November 6, 2014 by SharpBrains

Tinnitus_manTin­ni­tus: Turn­ing Down the Vol­ume (Med­Page Today):

“The drug D‑cycloserine was no more effec­tive than place­bo when used with a com­put­er-based cog­ni­tive train­ing pro­gram for reliev­ing per­sis­tent ear ring­ing in patients with tin­ni­tus in a small clin­i­cal study, but patients did report few­er cog­ni­tive dif­fi­cul­ties… [Read more…] about Can neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty-based inter­ven­tions address tin­ni­tus-relat­ed cog­ni­tive deficits?

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: attention control, cognitive difficulties, cognitive-deficits, Cognitive-Training, D-cycloserine, Learning, neuroplasticity, tinnitus, Working-memory

Addressing cognitive deficits due to ADHD or leukemia/ brain tumor treatments

February 14, 2014 by SharpBrains

fog brainThe Sci­ence Behind ‘Brain Train­ing’ (The Atlantic):

“Julie Schweitzer, direc­tor of the ADHD Pro­gram at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia in Davis’s MIND Insti­tute, con­duct­ed a ran­dom­ized study of chil­dren diag­nosed with ADHD. When pub­lished in July 2012 in the jour­nal Neu­rother­a­peu­tics, Schweitzer’s study found that chil­dren [Read more…] about Address­ing cog­ni­tive deficits due to ADHD or leukemia/ brain tumor treatments

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: adhd, brain tumor, cogmed, cognitive-deficits, cognitive-rehabilitation, leukemia, neuropsychologist, Neurotherapeutics

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