By Dr. Norman Doidge
February 11, 2012 - Wall Street Journal Online
Neuroscience is in the process of reinventing itself. For 400 years, the brain was seen as a machine with parts, each performing a single mental function in a single brain location. Eventually the brain was seen as a computer with hard-wired circuits, [...]
By Robert Lee Hotz
Wall Street Journal Online – Researchers for the first time are documenting the basic wiring of the brain, the complex relationships among billions of neurons that are responsible for reason, memory and emotion. The work eventually could lead to better understanding of schizophrenia, autism, multiple sclerosis and other disorders.
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by Robert Lee Hotz
November 14, 2011 – The Wall Street Journal
A brain area that helps orchestrate mental activity works overtime in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, reflecting the internal struggle to hold more than one thing in mind at a time, neuroscientists reported Sunday.
The scientists used a functional magnetic imaging [...]
February 3, 2012 – Psychology Today
by Teresa Aubele, Ph.D., and Susan Reynolds
Many are conjecturing that Sunday’s Super Bowl will hinge on Tom Brady’s right arm, but according to his coach, Bill Belichick, Brady’s brain may be the deciding factor. In a CBS News interview, [...]
January 28, 2012 – The Wall Street Journal
By Alison Gopnik
“What was he thinking?” It’s the familiar cry of bewildered parents trying to understand why their teenagers act the way they do.
How does the boy who can thoughtfully explain the reasons never to drink and drive end up in a drunken [...]
November 12, 2007 – Krista Mahr
TIME.com – Scientists have found that the brain development of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is delayed but otherwise typical, according to a new study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Comparing brain scans of children aged 6 to 16 who had the common [...]
Holger Gevensleben, Birgit Holl, Björn Albrecht, Dieter Schlamp, Oliver Kratz, Petra Studer, Aribert Rothenberger, Gunther H. Moll and Hartmut Heinrich
ABSTRACT: Neurofeedback (NF) could help to improve attentional and self-management capabilities in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In a randomised controlled trial, NF training was found to be superior to a computerised attention skills training (AST) (Gevensleben et al. in J Child Psychol [...]
January 17, 2012 – Mark B. Levin
Breathing is an activity most of us don’t think about, but there are many ways to breathe and we breathe differently in different situations. Breathing a certain way can assist us in how we relate to a situation, and therefore impact our wellness. Changing how we are breathing [...]
R. N. Rozengurt1*, A. Barnea2 and M. Reiner1
Abstract
It is well established that sleep-dependent memory consolidation improves performance of motor and cognitive tasks. We asked whether such enhancement is possible in short sessions of awake states, and seek to identify underling mechanisms of memory consolidation and learning. Current literature suggests [...]
