Posts Tagged ‘schizophrenia’
Brain Training and Schizophrenia: How to Boost Social Cognitive Skills
Individuals suffering from schizophrenia show social cognitive deficits, that is difficulties in perceiving and understanding the social world. Research shows that schizophrenia is accompanied by social cognition problems such as problems identifying facial expressions, understanding and responding to social cues (e.g., body language), understanding that others have different mental states and thoughts than oneself (also…
Read MoreLessons from the SharpBrains Summit: Status Quo Not an Option
The 2011 SharpBrains Summit gathered more than 260 research and industry leaders in 16 countries for 3 days to discuss the changing landscape. Held online, participants from all over the globe attended to hear more than 40 thought leaders, scientists, entrepreneurs and policy makers outline the evolving marketplace. Discussion moved from cognitive fitness to neuroplasticity,…
Read MoreSchizophrenia Research is Leading the Way in Cognitive Remediation
As announced by the NIMH a few months ago, schizophrenia can now be considered as a brain disorder. Research is focusing on the cognitive deficits as the main problem of the disorder, probably preceding and perhaps leading to the symptoms of hallucinations and delusions. A recent article in the Psychiatric Times reviews the different cognitive…
Read MoreNew Summit Sponsor and Partners
We’re delighted to add Brain Resource to the roster of Sponsors of the upcoming 2011 SharpBrains Summit, and the Center for Technology and Aging and the Brain Injury Association of Canada to the roster of Partners. Thank you for your support!
Read MoreMichael Merzenich on Brain Training, Assessments, and Personal Brain Trainers
Interview with Dr. Michael Merzenich, Emeritus Professor at UCSF, a leading pioneer in brain plasticity research. In the late 1980s, Dr. Merzenich was on the team that invented the cochlear implant. In 1996, he was the founding CEO of Scientific Learning Corporation (Nasdaq: SCIL), and in 2004 became co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Posit Science. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999 and to the Institute of Medicine this year. He retired as Francis A. Sooy Professor and Co-Director of the Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience at the University of California at San Francisco in 2007. You may have learned about his work in one of PBS TV specials, multiple media appearances, or neuroplasticity-related books.
Read MoreCognitive Enhancement via Pharmacology AND Neuropsychology, in The New Executive Brain
(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…
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