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

By UT Dallas | January 18, 2017

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…

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

By SharpBrains | January 21, 2016

Cog­ni­tive 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.

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

By SharpBrains | December 9, 2015

Play­ing 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”)…

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

By SharpBrains | December 3, 2014

— 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.…

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

By SharpBrains | February 14, 2014

The 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 

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