The importance of Context for Cognitive/ Emotional Health

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 12, 2009

“For­tu­nate­ly, our field has moved beyond par­ti­san, and some­times polit­i­cal, pref­er­ence and now asks, What treat­ment is most effec­tive for which patients in what con­text?” — Ray­mon A. Levy and J. Stu­art Ablon, clin­i­cal direc­tor and direc­tor of the psy­chother­a­py research pro­gram in the depart­ment of psy­chi­a­try at Mass­a­chu­setts Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. Yes­ter­day’s New York Times…

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Physical and mental exercise to prevent cognitive decline

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 19, 2008 |

We offered some Brain Fit­ness Pre­dic­tions in our Mar­ket Report , includ­ing… “7. Doc­tors and phar­ma­cists will help patients nav­i­gate through the over­whelm­ing range of avail­able prod­ucts and inter­pret the results of cog­ni­tive assess­ments. This will require sig­nif­i­cant pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment efforts, giv­en that most doc­tors today were trained under a very dif­fer­ent under­stand­ing of the…

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