Working Memory Training can Influence Brain Biochemistry

By Dr. David Rabiner | February 22, 2009

I want­ed to alert you to a very inter­est­ing find­ing pub­lished in a recent issue of Sci­ence, one of the world’s lead­ing sci­en­tif­ic jour­nals. The study was led by Dr. Torkel Kling­berg and his col­leagues from the Karolin­s­ka Insti­tute in Swe­den. The goal was to learn whether Work­ing Mem­o­ry Train­ing is asso­ci­at­ed with changes in…

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Cognitive Training (Cogmed) Changes the Brain More Than We Thought

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 6, 2009

Cog­ni­tive Train­ing Can Alter Bio­chem­istry Of The Brain (Sci­ence Dai­ly) — “Researchers at the Swedish med­ical uni­ver­si­ty Karolin­s­ka Insti­tute have shown for the first time that the active train­ing of the work­ing mem­o­ry brings about vis­i­ble changes in the num­ber of dopamine recep­tors in the human brain.” — ““Brain bio­chem­istry does­n’t just under­pin our men­tal activ­i­ty; our…

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