Trend: Rethinking (and treating) chronic pain as a brain disease

By SharpBrains | December 27, 2018

Can stim­u­lat­ing the brain treat chron­ic pain? (Sci­ence Dai­ly): “We’ve pub­lished numer­ous brain stim­u­la­tion papers over sev­er­al years, and we always learn some­thing impor­tant,” said senior author Flavio Frohlich, PhD, direc­tor of the Car­oli­na Cen­ter for Neu­rostim­u­la­tion and asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of psy­chi­a­try. “But this is the first time we’ve stud­ied chron­ic pain, and this is the…

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Study: EEG-augmented brain training shows promise as first-line treatment for ADHD

By SharpBrains | March 9, 2016

Nov­el Brain Train­ing Game May Reduce Kids’ ADHD Symp­toms (Med­space): “A nov­el cog­ni­tive train­ing com­put­er game that uses a child’s own brain waves to improve con­cen­tra­tion may reduce symp­toms of atten­­tion-deficit/hy­per­ac­­tiv­i­­ty dis­or­der (ADHD), say US researchers. Inves­ti­ga­tors used a nov­el feed-for­ward mod­el­ing (FFM) sys­tem, which…is based on a com­put­er cog­ni­tive train­ing game in which attention…

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Study: Families’ Perspectives on ADHD and its Treatment

By Dr. David Rabiner | October 18, 2011

In 2005 the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Pedi­atrics (AAP) began an ini­tia­tive to pro­mote an approach to care among its mem­bers in which “…the pedi­atric team works in part­ner­ship with a child and a child’s fam­i­ly to assure that all of the med­ical and non-med­i­cal needs of the patient are met.” A crit­i­cal­ly impor­tant focus of…

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