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Reading for pleasure during childhood may lead to higher brain/ cognitive development and mental well-being during adolescence

July 19, 2023 by The Conversation Leave a Comment

Ear­ly child­hood is a crit­i­cal peri­od for brain devel­op­ment, which is impor­tant for boost­ing cog­ni­tion and men­tal well­be­ing. Good brain health at this age is direct­ly linked to bet­ter men­tal heath, cog­ni­tion and edu­ca­tion­al attain­ment in ado­les­cence and adult­hood. It can also pro­vide resilience in times of stress.

But, sad­ly, brain devel­op­ment can be ham­pered by pover­ty. Stud­ies have shown that ear­ly child­hood pover­ty is a risk fac­tor for low­er edu­ca­tion­al attain­ment. It is also asso­ci­at­ed with dif­fer­ences in brain struc­ture, poor­er cog­ni­tion, behav­iour­al prob­lems and men­tal health symp­toms. [Read more…] about Read­ing for plea­sure dur­ing child­hood may lead to high­er brain/ cog­ni­tive devel­op­ment and men­tal well-being dur­ing adolescence

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: ABCD, adolescence, adulthood, boost cognition, brain-development, Brain-Plasticity, brain-structure, cognition, cognitive, cognitive-skills, cortex, educational attainment, Executive-Functions, good brain health, grey-matter, healthy brain development, language, memory, mental wellbeing, Neurodevelopmental, neurodevelopmental period, planning, poverty, self-control, Social-Intelligence, Working-memory

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

June 7, 2023 by Dr. David Rabiner

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 exten­sive­ly used to treat ADHD in adults. Although med­ica­tion is a core treat­ment for adult ADHD, and helps many indi­vid­u­als, many con­tin­ue to expe­ri­ence impair­ment and some expe­ri­ence adverse effects that pre­clude ongo­ing med­ica­tion treat­ment. [Read more…] about Study: Self-guid­ed inter­net-deliv­ered treat­ment can sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduce ADHD symp­toms among adults

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Filed Under: Attention & ADD/ADHD, Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: ADHD-Treatment, adult-AD/HD, awareness training, emotion regulation, goal-setting, inhibition training, internet-delivered, medication-treatment, MyADHD, planning, psychoeducation, psychological, psychological treatment

UT Dallas researcher secures $2.7m grant to better monitor and address TBI-related cognitive and functional deficits

January 18, 2017 by UT Dallas

-- Drs. Dan Krawczyk and Kihwan Han review MRI scans. Credit: Center for BrainHealth, Randy Anderson
– Drs. Dan Kraw­czyk and Kih­wan Han review MRI scans. Cred­it: Cen­ter for Brain­Health, Randy Anderson

Sci­en­tist Gets Grant for Study of Vet­er­ans with Trau­mat­ic Brain Injuries (UT Dal­las release):

A researcher from the Cen­ter for Brain­Health at UT Dal­las has been award­ed a $2.7 mil­lion grant from the Depart­ment of Defense (DoD) under the Joint Warfight­er Med­ical Research Program.

The grant, award­ed to Dr. Daniel Kraw­czyk, deputy direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Brain­Health, will fund research, via a vir­tu­al tech­nol­o­gy plat­form, to improve cog­ni­tive and func­tion­al deficits for [Read more…] about UT Dal­las researcher secures $2.7m grant to bet­ter mon­i­tor and address TBI-relat­ed cog­ni­tive and func­tion­al deficits

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Applied Research Associates, Brain-Imaging, BrainHealth, chronic TBI, cognitive-control, cognitive-deficits, cognitive-performance, cognitive-rehabilitation, Department of Defense, DoD, Expedition, functional deficits, improve cognitive difficulties, medical research, neuropsychological, planning, Serious-Games, TBI, Traumatic-Brain-Injury, UT-Dallas, veterans, virtual technology platform, Virtual-Heroes, Working-memory

Study Links Obesity and Cognitive Fitness — In Both Directions

August 26, 2011 by SharpBrains

Obe­si­ty linked to Cog­ni­tion (Health­Canal):

- “Obese peo­ple tend to per­form worse than healthy peo­ple at cog­ni­tive tasks like plan­ning ahead, a lit­er­a­ture review has found, con­clud­ing that psy­cho­log­i­cal tech­niques used to treat anorex­i­cs could help obese peo­ple too.” [Read more…] about Study Links Obe­si­ty and Cog­ni­tive Fit­ness — In Both Directions

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: behavior, cognition, cognitive-function, cognitive-functioning, Decision-making, Evelyn Smith, executive-function, goal-oriented-behavior, healthy, Judith-Beck, obesity, planning, planning ahead, psychiatry, psychological

A Brain Game to Tease your Frontal Skills

December 10, 2010 by Dr. Pascale Michelon

The frontal lobes of the brain (in gray here) have been com­pared to an orches­tra con­duc­tor, ­influ­enc­ing, direct­ing, and mod­er­at­ing many oth­er brain func­tions. Indeed, the frontal lobes sup­port the so-called exec­u­tive func­tions: deci­sion-mak­ing, prob­lem-solv­ing, plan­ning, inhibit­ing, as well as oth­er high-lev­el func­tions (social behav­ior, emo­tion­al con­trol, work­ing mem­o­ry, etc.). Ready for an exec­u­tive work­out? [Read more…] about A Brain Game to Tease your Frontal Skills

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers Tagged With: brain-game, Brain-games, brain-teaser, decipher-code, Decision-making, frontal-lobes, inhibiting, planning, problem-solving

Cognitive Enhancement via Pharmacology AND Neuropsychology, in The New Executive Brain

August 30, 2009 by Alvaro Fernandez

(Edi­tor’s Note: giv­en the grow­ing media atten­tion to three appar­ent­ly sep­a­rate worlds ‑cog­ni­tive enhance­ment via drugs, brain fit­ness train­ing soft­ware, com­put­er­ized neu­rocog­ni­tive assessments‑, I found it refresh­ing to see our co-founder Elkhonon Gold­berg intro­duce the top­ic of cog­notrop­ic drugs with an inte­gra­tive per­spec­tive in the much updat­ed new edi­tion of his clas­sic book, now titled The New Executive Brain - By Elkhonon Goldberg The New Exec­u­tive Brain: Frontal Lobes In A Com­plex World. Below goes an excerpt).

For many neu­ropsy­chol­o­gists, like myself, sci­ence is a labor of love, but see­ing patients is bread and but­ter. Tra­di­tion­al­ly, the clin­i­cal con­tri­bu­tion of neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy has been most­ly diag­nos­tic, with pre­cious lit­tle to offer patients by way of treat­ment. Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy is not the only clin­i­cal dis­ci­pline for years con­signed to help­less voyeurism. Every dis­ci­pline con­cerned with cog­ni­tion shares this hum­bling predica­ment. A psy­chi­a­trist treat­ing a schiz­o­phrenic patient or a depressed patient finds him- or her­self in a sim­i­lar posi­tion. There are ample phar­ma­co­log­i­cal tools to treat the patient’s psy­chosis or mood, but very few to treat the patient’s cog­ni­tion. Even though psy­chi­a­trists increas­ing­ly rec­og­nize that cog­ni­tive impair­ment is often more debil­i­tat­ing in their patients than psy­chosis or mood dis­or­der, tra­di­tion­al­ly, very lit­tle direct effort has been aimed at improv­ing cognition.

A neu­rol­o­gist treat­ing a patient recov­er­ing from the effects of head injury does not fare much bet­ter. There are ade­quate means to con­trol the patient’s seizures but not his or her cog­ni­tive changes, despite the fact that cog­ni­tive impair­ment is usu­al­ly far more debil­i­tat­ing than an occa­sion­al seizure. Soci­ety has been so pre­oc­cu­pied with sav­ing lives, treat­ing hal­lu­ci­na­tions, con­trol­ling seizures, and lift­ing depres­sion that cog­ni­tion (mem­o­ry, atten­tion, plan­ning, prob­lem solv­ing) has been large­ly ignored. Grant­ed, var­i­ous neu­rolep­tics, anti­con­vul­sants, anti­de­pres­sants, seda­tives, and stim­u­lants do have an effect on cog­ni­tion, but it is an ancil­lary effect of a drug designed to treat some­thing else.

Alzheimer’s dis­ease and oth­er demen­tias have been society’s wake-up call. Here, in the most afflu­ent coun­try in the most afflu­ent of times, human minds were suc­cumb­ing to decay before human bod­ies, a sharp chal­lenge to the tac­it pop­u­lar belief that the “body is frail but soul is for­ev­er.” This pro­vid­ed an impe­tus for the devel­op­ment of an entire­ly new class of drugs, which can be termed famil­ial­ly as “cog­notrop­ic.” Their pri­ma­ry and explic­it pur­pose is to improve cognition.

Since med­ical and pub­lic pre­oc­cu­pa­tion with demen­tia focus­es on mem­o­ry, most of the phar­ma­co­log­i­cal efforts have been direct­ed at improv­ing mem­o­ry. At the time of this writ­ing, a hand­ful of drugs known as “Alzheimer’s drugs” or “mem­o­ry enhancers” have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion (FDA). In real­i­ty, both des­ig­na­tions are some­what mis­lead­ing. The drugs in ques­tion are [Read more…] about Cog­ni­tive Enhance­ment via Phar­ma­col­o­gy AND Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy, in The New Exec­u­tive Brain

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: Alzheimer’s-disease, Alzheimer’s-drugs, anticholinesterases, Aricept, attention, Cognex, cognition, cognitive-enhancer, Cognitive-impairment, cognitive-measures, cognotropic, cognotropic-drugs, dementia, dopamine, Elkhonon-Goldberg, executive-brain, FDA, head-injury, improve-cognition, Luria, memory, memory-enhancers, Mild-traumatic-brain-injury, mood-disorder, Namenda, neurocognitive, neurologist, neuropsychological-tests, Neuropsychology, Pharmacology, planning, prefrontal-cortex, problem-solving, psychosis, schizophrenia, spatial-working-memory, therapeutic, Working-memory

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