May Update: Brain Training in Mental Health Toolkits for Prevention and Rehabilitation

By SharpBrains | May 31, 2011

The use of a vari­ety of brain train­ing inter­ven­tions is grow­ing in the area of men­tal health. Emerg­ing evi­dence sug­gests that in the near future tar­get­ed brain train­ing may even be used to pre­vent sub­stance abuse. For exam­ple, train­ing work­ing mem­o­ry may reduce sub­stance abusers’ dis­count­ing of long-term rewards and pun­ish­ments — such dis­count­ing is…

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Neuroplasticity in the Brain of Children with Neurological Disorders

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | May 2, 2011 |

The brains of chil­dren with neu­ro­log­i­cal dis­or­ders seems to exhib­it signs of neu­ro­plas­tic changes, sug­gest­ing com­pen­sato­ry mech­a­nisms for the dis­or­der. This result opens up the pos­si­bil­i­ty that brain train­ing may be use­ful to help these patients con­trol their symp­toms. The dis­or­der stud­ied was Tourette syn­drome (TS), which usu­al­ly become evi­dent in ear­ly child­hood or adolescence…

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