A paper on research by Emily Holmes and her team on using applications of time-series analysis to mood fluctuations in bipolar disorder to promote treatment innovation has been published in Nature. The findings offer preliminary support for a new imagery-focused treatment approach. They also indicate a step in treatment innovation without the requirement for trials […]
Archives for January 2016
Following instructions in a virtual school depends on working memory
Some children are much better than others at carrying out instructions, but why? Working memory – the capacity for storing information over short periods of time – appears to play an important role. Using a virtual reality environment of a school, a research team headed by Jaroslawska has shown that children with greater working memory […]
Cognitive Training in Children Seminar January 2016
A report of the day can be found here The CBU hosted an ESRC Seminar on Cognitive Training in Children in January with over 70 delegates from academia, the health service and educationalists. Over two days they heard talks from an international line up of speakers including Torkel Klingberg and Edmund Sonuga-Barke. Films of the talks will […]