Cognitive Training can Boost Sense of Control

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | December 15, 2010

Hav­ing a sense of con­trol over one’s life may be one of the most cru­cial mark­ers of suc­cess­ful aging. Aging indi­vid­u­als who feel in con­trol seem to know more about their health, be more like­ly to take actions to pro­tect it and thus enjoy health­i­er and longer lives. Stud­ies have shown that peo­ple feel less…

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Comparing Working Memory Training & Medication Treatment for ADHD

By Dr. David Rabiner | August 26, 2009

Work­ing mem­o­ry (WM) is the cog­ni­tive sys­tem respon­si­ble for the tem­po­rary stor­age and manip­u­la­tion of infor­ma­tion and plays an impor­tant role in both learn­ing and focus­ing atten­tion. Con­sid­er­able research has doc­u­ment­ed that many chil­dren and adults with ADHD have WM deficits and that this con­tributes to dif­fi­cul­ties asso­ci­at­ed with the dis­or­der. For an excel­lent introduction…

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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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