Update: Why brain training needs to be better targeted, and more widely available

By SharpBrains | August 29, 2014

— Time for Sharp­Brains’ August 2014 e‑newsletter, fea­tur­ing a wealth of insights, sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy reports…and this brain teas­er to exer­cise your men­tal rota­tion abil­i­ties. Enjoy! New trends: How to incor­po­rate mind­ful­ness into psy­chother­a­py Chal­leng­ing the out­dat­ed “fixed brain” dog­ma, the cog­ni­tive train­ing mar­ket keeps grow­ing Increased aware­ness and use of cog­ni­tive assess­ments seen as demen­­tia-relat­ed pri­or­i­ties by…

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To treat depression, we will likely combine neuroplasticity-based brain training games with antidepressants

By SharpBrains | August 13, 2014

Com­put­er Games Bet­ter Than Med­ica­tion in Treat­ing Elder­ly Depres­sion (Live Sci­ence): “Com­put­er games could help in treat­ing old­er peo­ple with depres­sion who haven’t been helped by anti­de­pres­sant drugs or oth­er treat­ments for the disorder…In a study of 11 old­er patients, researchers found play­ing cer­tain com­put­er games was just as effec­tive at reduc­ing symp­toms of depres­sion as 

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Does cognitive therapy work; should the NHS provide more of it for depression?

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 24, 2010 |

Excel­lent arti­cle in the UK’s news­pa­per The Inde­pen­dent on the grow­ing adop­tion of cog­ni­­tive-behav­iour­al ther­a­py (CBT) by the Nation­al Health Ser­vice (NHS). Very rel­e­vant to the US too, giv­en that a grow­ing num­ber of insur­ers are offer­ing com­put­er­ized CBT. Quotes: “Why are we ask­ing this now? There is grow­ing frus­tra­tion among GPs at the dif­fi­cul­ty they…

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