Non-invasive Transcranial Electrical Stimulation (TES) shows early promise to treat ADHD symptoms in children

By Dr. David Rabiner | September 19, 2023

Many chil­dren with ADHD ben­e­fit from med­ica­tion treat­ment, behav­ioral treat­ment, or their com­bi­na­tion, but oth­ers do not. In addi­tion, par­ents are often reluc­tant to start their child on med­ica­tion and high qual­i­ty behav­ioral treat­ments are not read­i­ly acces­si­ble in many areas. The long-term effi­ca­cy of these treat­ments is also less than desir­able. Thus, despite these…

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New $1 million grant to study working memory training in children with fragile X

By SharpBrains | February 14, 2013

MIND Insti­tute researchers receive $1 mil­lion grant to study cog­ni­tive train­ing in chil­dren with frag­ile X (UC Davis Health Sys­tem News): “Researchers at the UC Davis MIND Insti­tute will exam­ine whether chil­dren and youth with frag­ile X syn­drome can improve their work­ing mem­o­ry, cog­ni­tion and behav­ior by using an online com­put­er-based cog­ni­tive train­ing pro­gram, through a new…

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Brain Training: It Works, and It Doesn’t Work

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 13, 2009 |

The IMPACT study which we report­ed on in Decem­ber 2007, fund­ed by Posit Sci­ence, con­duct­ed by the Mayo Clin­ic and USC Davis, has just announced pub­li­ca­tion at the Jour­nal of the Amer­i­can Geri­atrics Soci­ety. Ref­er­ence: — Smith et al. A Cog­ni­tive Train­ing Pro­gram Designed Based on Prin­ci­ples of Brain Plas­tic­i­ty: Results from the Improve­ment in…

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Allstate: Can we improve Driver Safety using Posit Science InSight?

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 1, 2008

Insur­ance com­pa­ny All­state and brain fit­ness soft­ware devel­op­er Posit Sci­ence just announced (see press release Pro­tect­ing Penn­syl­va­nia Dri­vers, One Brain at a Time) a very intel­li­gent ini­tia­tive: Video exer­cis­es aid dri­ving skills (Chica­go Tri­bune) -“All­state, which called the Posit pro­gram “poten­tial­ly the next big break­through in auto­mo­bile safe­ty,” said it expects its soft­ware exer­cis­es to…

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Brain Health/ Brain Training News

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 14, 2008 |

Roundup of inter­est­ing news in this emerg­ing field: 1) Brain Health Lead­ers Team Up to Pre­vent Crash­es. 2) Adults Improve Crit­i­cal Pro­fes­sion­al and Per­son­al Skills Through New Cog­ni­tive Train­ing Pro­gram. 3) Nature Neu­ro­science Pod­cast and Lon­don Taxi Dri­vers. 4) What Have You Changed Your Mind About, late­ly?. 5) The 2008 Mind & Life Sum­mer Research Institute…

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“Tis better to give than receive”: oxytocin and dopamine

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 21, 2007 |

Jef­frey Gonce, a Psy­chol­o­gy teacher at Red Land High School (West Shore School Dis­trict, PA) just asked his stu­dents to “com­plete a project describ­ing a recent brain (or genet­ic) study that affects behav­ior.”  The stu­dents could opt to post their arti­cles online, and Jef­frey was kind enough to send us a link to read the…

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