Posts Tagged ‘Executive-Functions’
Test your cognitive flexibility with this fun brain teaser
Ready to test your cognitive flexibility and concentration powers? Try this classic brain teaser, fun for kids and adults alike. Quick! Say aloud what color you see in every word. Don’t read the word — say the color :-) Tougher than expected, right? This brain teaser is actually called the Stroop Test and is often used in…
Read MoreExecutive Functions in Health and Disease: New book to help integrate Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology
__________ Neuroscience used to be the monopoly of a few elite universities located in a handful of countries. Neuropsychology used to be a quaint niche discipline relatively unconnected to the larger world of neuroscience and content in its methods with paper-and-pencil tests.
Read MoreBrain Teaser to test your pattern recognition and other cognitive skills: The Empty Triangle
Please enjoy this fun brain teaser, provided by puzzle master Wes Carroll. The Empty Triangle: Question: Which number should be placed in the empty triangle?
Read MoreStudy: Cognitive deficits continue long term in cancer survivors in domains important for social and executive functioning
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.
Read MoreQ: What do people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anxiety have in common? A: A brain with similar gray-matter loss
. Different mental disorders cause same brain-matter loss, study finds (press release): “A meta-analysis of 193 brain-imaging studies shows similar gray-matter loss in the brains of people with diagnoses as different as schizophrenia, depression and addiction…The findings call into question a longstanding tendency to distinguish psychiatric disorders chiefly by their symptoms rather than their underlying…
Read MoreWhy, to improve memory, we need to think of the brain as a system
(Editor’s Note: every month we host an online Q&A with participants in the e‑course How To Be Your Own Brain Fitness Coach. This is the lightly edited and anonymized transcript from the January Q&A session; the February Q&A will take place on Tuesday, February 12th) 2:02 OK, ready to go! Happy 2013 again. You can start…
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