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- Cognitive Training Improves Job Performance? Study supports Generalization of Skills Recent research showed that cognitive training using the Captain's Log Cognitive Training system significantly improves speed and accuracy on bookkeeping tasks. The study was conducted by Amit Lampit and Michael Valenzuela from the Regenerative Neuroscien...
- Struggling Readers: Attention Training is the Key Drs. Cheung and Slavin (2012) have found in their review of reading research that training using the Captain's Log MindPower exercises improved the reading skills of students more than specific reading software. Students in the Captain's Log group scored ...
- Alzheimer's and Dementia - Early Intervention is Key in Fight against Rising Prevalence and Healthcare Costs According to a recent USA Today article, rates of Alzheimer's diagnosis are expected to triple by 2050. With the average cost to Medicare for an Alzheimer's patient being more than three times the cost for patients without Alzheimer's or other dementia, t...
- Latest Alzheimer's Research Supports the Opportunity to Prevent or Slow the Onset of Dementia For individuals at risk of early onset of Alzheimer's the latest research shows that the physiological changes often start 20 years before the onset of dementia. These individuals are typically in their 40s when Alzheimer's bio-markers in cerebrospinal fl...
- American Academy of Pediatrics Consensus on Brainwave Biofeedback: "Level 1 - Best Support" Recently, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) revised its “Evidence-based Child and Adolescent Psycho-social Interventions” and elevated Brainwave Biofeedback to “Level 1 — Best Support” as an intervention for Attention & Hyperactivity Behaviors. Cli...