Posts Tagged ‘treatment’
Harnessing neuroplasticity to drive and repair brain development
Re-opening Windows: Manipulating Critical Periods for Brain Development (Cerebrum): “Whether we realize it or not, nearly all of us have dreamed of enhancing brain plasticity, or the brain’s capacity to change. This desire might become apparent when we visit a foreign country late in life and wish we could speak with the fluency of a…
Read MoreBrain training (cognitive behavioural therapy) seen as most cost-effective treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome
Pacing ‘not cost-effective’ for CFS (NHS Choices): “Brain training is most cost-effective treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome,” BBC News reports, while pacing therapies (learning to live within limits) “offer little value”. “This news is based on research that aimed to determine how cost-effective four treatment options were for people with CFS. These were:
Read MoreThe Future of Preventive Brain Medicine: Breaking Down the Cognition & Alzheimer’s Disease Alphabet Soup
As the president and medical director of the Alzheimer’s Research and Prevention Foundation (ARPF), it’s my job to stay on top of advances in the field of Alzheimer’s research. Recently, a number of articles in the medical literature have caught my attention. They are focused on a particular question that concerns most Baby Boomers like…
Read MoreNews: Neuroscience Applied to Learning, Mental Health, Healthy Aging
Here you have a round-up of recent news on how cognitive and affective neuroscience findings are starting to inform education and health across the lifespan: Pediatricians issue a call to aid children facing ‘toxic stress’ (LA Times) Teachers as Brain-Changers: Neuroscience and Learning (EdWeek)
Read MoreResearch: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Helps Adults with ADHD
Many adults with ADHD do not obtain their diagnosis until adulthood and have struggled with difficulties related to undiagnosed ADHD for their entire lives.
Read MoreStudy: Families’ Perspectives on ADHD and its Treatment
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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