News tagged with memory training
Subjects at risk of Alzheimer's may now be able to delay the onset of their first symptoms
For elderly subjects at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, research shows that hope may lie in brain plasticity.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Memory training not best bet for reducing 'senior moments'
Trying to stave off senior moments with memory drills and similar brain-boosting activities? A new evidence review suggests that these specific training regimes are not any better than simple conversations ...
Jan 19, 2011 |
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Computer-based program may help relieve some ADHD symptoms in children
An intensive, five-week working memory training program shows promise in relieving some of the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, a new study suggests.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 09, 2010 |
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Can Memory Be Improved? A Meta-Analysis Suggests It Does
A meta-analysis published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics by Swiss investigators B. Metternich and associates indicates the effectiveness of non pharmacological interventions on memory complaints.
Feb 09, 2010 |
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Study shows link between working memory and reactive parenting
Any parent knows that sometimes maintaining your cool with misbehaving children is a challenge. We all have times when we get frustrated or angry and lash out at someone without thinking. A new study by psychologists at ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 08, 2009 |
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Taking up music so you can hear
Anyone with an MP3 device -- just about every man, woman and child on the planet today, it seems -- has a notion of the majesty of music, of the primal place it holds in the human imagination.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Cognitive behavior therapy helps older adults with anxiety reduce worry, improve mental health
Older adults with generalized anxiety disorder who received cognitive behavior therapy had greater improvement on measures of worry, depression and mental health than patients who received usual care, according to a study ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 07, 2009 |
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Cognitive training can alter the biochemistry of the brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have shown for the first time that the active training of the working memory brings about visible changes in the number of dopamine receptors ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 06, 2009 |
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