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Study receives award at American Psychological Association's Annual Convention FINDINGS: UCLA researchers found that older adults who regularly used a brain fitness program played on a computer demonstrated significantly improved memory and language skills. The team studied 59 participants with an average age of 84, recruited from local retirement communities in Southern California. The volunteers were split into two groups: the first group used a brain fitness program for an average...
Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The brain is an intricate part of the body to say the least. And new research has focused on the effect of neural connectivity on one area of these intricacies, imaging a person's brain to estimate their level of intelligence. Researchers have long thought that overall brain size can affect individual variations in intelligence. A past study delved into this particular topic and demonstrated that the brain’s lateral prefrontal...
Navigated brain stimulation enables extraordinary advances in neurophysiology and brain research Alpharetta, GA (PRWEB) July 30, 2012 Nexstim announced today that they would be featured in an upcoming episode of Health Heroes. Nexstim develops, manufactures and markets navigated brain stimulation devices for the worldwide medical community. After launching its first commercial product in 2003, Nexstim has taken the industry by storm, providing sophisticated tools for hospitals and...
With personality-based brain training, MindSparke adapts its brain fitness exercises to match the trainee's personality type. New York, NY (PRWEB) July 20, 2012 MindSparke today introduces the first brain training program to adapt to the trainee's personality type. With a few simple questions MindSparke matches the trainee's personality to the exercises it delivers. This novel approach is designed to ensure that customers get the most out of the training. "We're on a...
VANCOUVER, July 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Allon Therapeutics Inc. (TSX: NPC) announced that data presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) in Vancouver confirm the integrity of patient enrollment and the importance of cognitive impairment in its pivotal clinical trial evaluating the Company's lead drug candidate davunetide as a potential treatment of the rapidly progressive neurodegenerative disease progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). Dr. Michael...
ROCKVILLE, Md., June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Neuralstem, Inc. (NYSE MKT: CUR) announced that the first patients were dosed in Phase Ib of its ongoing trial to test the safety of NSI-189 in the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). NSI-189, the lead compound in Neuralstem's small molecule platform, is a proprietary new chemical entity that stimulates new neuron growth in the hippocampus, a region of the brain believed to be implicated in MDD as well as other diseases and...
Front-most part of the cortex involved in making short-term predictions about what will happen next Researchers at the University of Iowa, together with colleagues from the California Institute of Technology and New York University, have discovered how a part of the brain helps predict future events from past experiences. The work sheds light on the function of the front-most part of the frontal lobe, known as the frontopolar cortex, an area of the cortex uniquely well developed in humans...
World-class performers in management, sports and music often have uniquely high mind-brain development Scientists trying to understand why some people excel — whether as world-class athletes, virtuoso musicians, or top CEOs — have discovered that these outstanding performers have unique brain characteristics that make them different from other people. A study published in May in the journal Cognitive Processing found that 20 top-level managers scored higher on three measures — the...
Has your memory failed you today, such as struggling to recall a word that's "on the tip of your tongue?" If so, you're not alone. New University of Michigan research indicates that "tip-of-the-tongue" errors happen often to adults ages 65-92. In a study of 105 healthy, highly-educated older adults, 61 percent reported this memory mishap. The study's participants completed a checklist of the memory errors made in the last 24 hours, as well as several other tests. About half of them...
ALPHARETTA, Ga., June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Nexstim announced today that they would be featured in an upcoming episode of Health Heroes. Nexstim develops, manufactures and markets navigated brain stimulation devices for the worldwide medical community. After launching its first commercial product in 2003, Nexstim has taken the industry by storm, providing sophisticated tools for hospitals and research facilities both in the United States and internationally. This particular...
