Study: Self-guided internet-delivered treatment can significantly reduce ADHD symptoms among adults

Although ADHD was orig­i­nal­ly con­sid­ered to be a dis­or­der of child­hood, it has been clear for years that it also impacts adults. At least 60% of chil­dren diag­nosed with ADHD strug­gle with symp­toms into adult­hood and the esti­mat­ed preva­lence of ADHD in adults is between 4 and 5%. As with chil­dren and teens, med­ica­tion treat­ment is…

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ETech09: on Life Hacking and Brain Training

Here you have the pre­sen­ta­tion I deliv­ered on Tues­day at ETech 2009 (this year’s O’Reil­ly Emerg­ing Tech­nol­o­gy Con­fer­ence): Emerg­ing Research and Tech­nol­o­gy for Life Hacking/ Brain Train­ing  (click to open pre­sen­ta­tion in new win­dow) Descrip­tion: Life hack­ing. Brain train­ing. They are one and the same. The brain’s frontal lobes enable our goal-ori­en­t­ed behav­ior, sup­port­ing executive…

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