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 scanner [...]
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 [...]
Deborah Halber, News Office correspondent, MITnews
Different brain regions working together may coordinate by locking into an oscillation frequency the way a radio tuner locks into a station, report researchers from the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT in the Nov. 15 issue of the journal PLoS (Public Library of Science) Biology.
The [...]
CBS News Staff – January 17, 2012
(CBS/AP) Before they can talk, are babies trying to figure out what people are saying to them? A new study suggests babies read people’s lips when they learn to speak.
In that magical stage when a baby’s babbling gradually changes from gibberish into syllables – and eventually into [...]
Ros et al, July 24, 2009 Background
By enabling individuals to self-regulate their brainwave activity in the field of optimal performance in healthy individuals, neurofeedback has been found to improve cognitive and artistic performance. Here we assessed whether two distinct EEG neurofeedback protocols could develop surgical skill, given the important role this skill plays in [...]
