Preschoolers Store Info and Use As Needed
Here is an enlightening piece of research for those of us raising the strange little creatures known as preschoolers, and those of us providing treatment to families raising the little barbarians as well. Research by Colorado Professor Yuko Munakata suggests that three-year-olds are often listening when you give them directions — they simply choose to [...]
Pharmaceutical Enhancement for All
(Cross-posted from my private practice site at kierstenmarek.com) Nature Magazine has a new article in which a group of scientists and ethicists lay out a platform for supporting the idea that healthy people can and should seek cognitive enhancement through whatever means necessary — including psychiatric drugs. From the article: Many people have doubts about [...]
Wii Can Cure Anxiety and Depression, Too?
(cross-posted from my private practice site at kierstenmarek.com) Now that we’ve gotten that pesky election out of the way, we can talk about really important things like Self Help Video Games! Seriously, though, there is interesting news for therapists and gamers out there — a whole new fleet of video games are being developed to [...]
Don’t Make Decisions on a Tired Brain
(cross-posted from my private practice site.) This article from Scientific American describes new research that suggests that if you wear your brain out with executive function activities, you might not want to make any big decisions right away. Even using your executive function for mundane self-control such as avoiding eating foods that are not good [...]
More on Podcamp Boston
Yesterday was my first experience liveblogging an event, and as you can see from the skimpy blog post, it was a challenge — getting on wifi, staying online when I paused to listen more intently to presenters, typing on the small hand-held computer screen, shutting off my technology so that I could interact with the [...]
Research on Preschool Ed with Executive Function Focus
(Cross-posted from the blog on my private practice site.) An article in this week’s Newsweek by Wray Herbert describes some fascinating research being done on enhancing preschool education by focusing the curriculum specifically to improve executive functions. From the article: [...] Psychologist Adele Diamond of the University of British Columbia has been testing the EF [...]
New Study on Meditative Mindfulness and ADHD
(This is cross-posted from my private practice site.) Sharpbrains.com, one of the sites in our Technology & Helping Kids blogroll, has an article by Dr. David Rabiner in which he reviews some new research on teaching mindfulness meditation to teens and adults, and how study participants with attentional problems were helped by learning and practicing [...]
Some Good News for Once
As soon as I find my glasses I’m going to clip this article from the science section of the New York Times. “Older Brain Really May Be a Wiser Brain� When older people can no longer remember names at a cocktail party, they tend to think that their brainpower is declining. But a growing number [...]
Bipolar Disorder on the Rise? Maybe Not So Much
Now we just need another study on the overdiagnosis of bipolar in kids, and we’ll have two studies pointing us in the right direction. From the Projo: A major swing in diagnosing bipolar disorder By Felice J. Freyer, Journal Medical Writer A few years ago, Dr. Mark Zimmerman, a psychiatrist at Rhode Island Hospital, started [...]
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