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Higher-order Executive Function in Middle School: Training Teachers to Enhance Cognition in Young Adolescents
Using our higher-order executive function training protocol (SMART™), the center provided short-term, intensive professional development to teachers, equipping them with a brain-based program and the confidence to close the learning gap.
Frontiers in Psychology
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Parenting With a Kind Mind: Exploring Kindness as a Potentiator for Enhanced Brain Health
The BrainHealth pilot study Kind Minds With Moozie examines the impact of digitally-delivered, self-paced brain science education and kindness activities on resilience and empathy in parents and preschool-aged children.
Frontiers in Psychology
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Novel Oppositional Defiant Disorder 6 Months After Traumatic Brain Injury in Children and Adolescents
This study investigates possible predictive factors of novel oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) among children and adolescents in the first 6 months following traumatic brain injury (TBI).
The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
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Snoring Remediation with Oral Appliance Therapy Potentially Reverses Cognitive Impairment: An Intervention Controlled Pilot Study
This pilot study investigates the relationship between respiration rate and snoring in individuals with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease.
Geriatrics
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Virtual Training Helps Underserved Middle Schoolers Hone Social Skills
Recent research at the center demonstrates the power of combining Charisma™, a virtual platform, with live coaching to help students enhance their social skills and confidence in a low-risk environment.
Frontiers in Education
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How Confidence Works: The New Science of Self-belief, Why Some People Learn It and Others Don't
Dr. Ian Robertson explores the mechanisms behind confidence that have emerged in science and neuroscience and explains how confidence can be improved.
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Improving Classroom Communication: The Effects of Virtual Social Training on Communication and Assertion Skills in Middle School Students
Socially at-risk students showed significant improvement in their social skills after they underwent virtual training.
Frontiers in Education
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Highlighting Brain-based Inequalities for Women: From Bedside and Boardroom to Policy
The team of researchers who wrote this article explore the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 upon women, and the consequences for children, families, communities and future generations – unless prompt action is taken to close "The Brain Gap."
Psychiatric Times
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Building Brain Capital
A progressive team of interdisciplinary researchers seek to draw attention to the crucial role of Brain Capital in fueling economic and societal recovery and resilience.
Neuron
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Phosphate Brain Energy Metabolism and Cognition in Alzheimer's Disease: A Spectroscopy Study Using Whole-Brain Volume-Coil 31Phosphorus Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy at 7Tesla
This novel study shows that it is possible to measure phosphate brain energy metabolism (p-BEM) with precision at ultra high field magnetic strength in living human subjects.
Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Autonomous Learning of New Environments With a Robotic Team Employing Hyper-Spectral Remote Sensing
An autonomous robotic team can learn the characteristics of environments faster than ever before.
Sensors
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New Hope for Executive Function and Reasoning Remediation in Children With ADHD: Strategic Memory and Reasoning Training (SMART)
Teaching children with ADHD specific metacognitive strategies has the potential to improve strategic learning and executive function.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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A Novel BrainHealth Index Prototype Improved by Telehealth-delivered Training During COVID-19
This groundbreaking study establishes a holistic, personalized measure of brain fitness (the BrainHealth® Index) and training protocols with the potential to revolutionize global health.
Frontiers in Public Health
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Smart Growth: The Case for Measuring Brain Capital
The authors of this article respond to the global economic loss of $3 trillion per year by promoting Brain Capital, which places a premium on brain health and critical brain skills for a digitized economy.
Psychiatric Times
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The Last Word: Digital Decision Making and Safety in the COVID World
Understanding the decision-making implications of cognitive decline, especially within the digital realm, and enacting subsequent clinical and policy measures is critical.
Today’s Geriatric Medicine