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Virtual Training Helps Underserved Middle Schoolers Hone Social Skills
Recent research from the Center for BrainHealth® at UT Dallas 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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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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Efficacy of Cognitive Training When Translated from the Laboratory to the Real World
This article presents preliminary evidence on the efficacy of SMART™ training when it is administered over a condensed time frame.
Military Medicine
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The Peripheral Effect of Direct Current Stimulation on Brain Circuits Involving Memory
Activation of the noradrenergic pathway to the hippocampus modifies functional connectivity, supporting the consolidation of a memory event.
Science Advances
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A Brain Capital Grand Strategy: Toward Economic Reimagination
Brain capital is a key component in shaping economic resilience, linked to our digitalized, globalized, complex, and interconnected yet fragile global economy. The time is now to catalyze a Grand Strategy for Brain Capital.
Molecular Psychiatry
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Relationship of Parieto-Occipital Brain Energy Phosphate Metabolism and Cognition Using 31P MRS at 7-Tesla in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment
This study examines potential for brain energy metabolism to be utilized as a cognitive measure for mild cognitive impairment.
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
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Enhancing Patient Understanding of Medication Risks and Benefits
A gist reasoning program may help to enhance informed decision-making among patients with limited information regarding their treatment options.
Arthritis Care & Research
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Rhythm and Syntax Processing in School-Age Children
Children with good rhythm skills understood grammatically complex sentences better than children with poor rhythm skills.
Developmental Psychology
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Charisma: A Virtual Reality Training to Promote Social BrainHealth in Adults
This game-based platform with a clinician-led strategy training protocol helps adults navigate the socially complex interactions they face every day.
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Baseline Cerebral Metabolism Predicts Fatigue and Cognition in Multiple Sclerosis Patients
Individuals with multiple sclerosis have lower brain oxygen metabolism; a measurement shown to be predictive of fatigue and cognitive dysfunction.
Neuroimage: Clinical
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A SMART Approach for Enhancing Higher-Order Cognitive Functioning Following Sports and Recreation-related Mild TBI in Youth Using Telepractice
SMART™ tactics can remediate higher-order cognitive processes following mild traumatic brain injury and help prevent negative, long-lasting impacts.
Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups