A team of scientists from the UNIGE and the HUG has found that a special type of brain training based on the principle of ‘neurofeedback’ enables people with attention deficit disorder to improve their ability to concentrate.
Research highlights:
- Go/NoGo task performance improved after a single-session of neurofeedback aimed at downregulating the alpha-rhythm.
- The amplitudes of both N1 and P3 event-related potentials were enhanced post-neurofeedback.
- Improvement of executive function correlated with enhanced P3 amplitude in adult ADHD patients.
Conclusions
“A single-session of alpha down-regulation NFB was able to reverse the abnormal neurocognitive signatures of adult ADHD during a Go/NoGo task.”
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Researchers have found that eating disorder behaviors, such as binge-eating, alter the brain’s reward response process and food intake control circuitry, which can reinforce these behaviors. Understanding how eating disorder behaviors and neurobiology interact can shed light on why these disorders often become chronic and could aid in the future development of treatments. The study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, was supported by the National Institutes of Health.
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A simple breathing workout for just five minutes daily via a practice described as “strength training for your breathing muscles” helps to lower blood pressure and improve some measures of vascular health as well as, or even more than, aerobic exercise or medication, findings from recent University of Colorado Boulder research shows.
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The number of people who live past the age of 100 has been on the rise for decades, up to nearly half a million people worldwide.
There are, however, far fewer “supercentenarians,” people who live to age 110 or even longer. The oldest living person, Jeanne Calment of France, was 122 when she died in 1997; currently, the world’s oldest person is 118-year-old Kane Tanaka of Japan.
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