26 Apr 2012 Elite Minds
Research shows that chronic cocaine users lose gray matter in their brain much faster than those who don’t take the drug.
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27 Feb 2012 Elite Minds
Improving both their ability to perform complex reality-monitoring tasks and also linked with better social functioning.
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27 Feb 2012 Elite Minds
A major discovery for our understanding of visual cognition
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27 Feb 2012 Elite Minds
Researchers from Western Australia University have found that the loss of gray matter may lead to heart failure.
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18 Dec 2011 Elite Minds
Building on a promising studies published in 2009, a NIMH-funded clinical trial to be conducted next year could lead to the widespread use of cognitive training as a widespread tool for helping schizophrenia patients.
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11 Oct 2011
If you’re between 50 and 79 and want to study at UTAS, you may be eligible to partake in the Healthy Brain Project.
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18 Aug 2011
A recent study "Online rehabilitation of cognitive functions: the possibilities of the CogniFit program", conducted at the Prague Psychiatric Center, in the Czech republic, by Dr. Marek Preiss and his research group, and presented last month at the 12th European Congress of Psychology in Istanbul, is the first one to suggest that online cognitive training reduces depression and improves functions of everyday living in individuals with depression.
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17 Aug 2011 Associated Press
Research is under way to use those brain findings to develop better treatments — not just to temporarily block an addict's high, but to strengthen the underlying brain circuitry to fend off relapse.
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02 Aug 2011 Elite Minds
This study aims now to determine whether improvements in performance generalize to other areas of social functioning and to evaluate the mechanisms underlying the changes observed in the brain. The results of this study will inform models of neuroplasticity and will help to inform the timing and delivery of such early intervention programs.
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27 Feb 2011 Elite Minds
It is generally recognised that improved fitness enhances cognition, now it seems possible that the effect may work both ways.
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