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"content": "\u003cp>Even beforehand — before the compulsive writing and the bipolar diagnosis, before the niche medical practice and the best-selling book — Dr. Alice Flaherty stuck out. She had grown up beside a duckweed-filled pond in rural New Jersey, and by the time she was a young adult, she’d become a neuroscientist in a family of engineers, a theorist among doers.[contextly_sidebar id=\"sXNIfkgjQfMG5MJwfPfkWITgj41OQW8E\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she came home during breaks at Harvard, her father would rib her. “He’d say, ‘Yo, you talk big about pure science now, but you’re going to end up an engineer just like the rest of us,’” she recalled. “And when I went to med school, he was like, ‘See? See?’ And it’s totally true. It’s like tinkering. You tinker with the patients. It’s so fun. I love fixing broken machines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her neurology work at Massachusetts General Hospital involves plenty of gadgetry — she heads up the deep brain stimulation unit, and sometimes uses electroconvulsive therapy to help patients with depression or mania — but these days, that’s not the kind of tinkering that’s at the front of her mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, she has been toying with the boundaries of illness itself. She likes seeing patients other doctors have given up on. Many have faced questions about whether they’re really as sick as they say. For all of them, getting the proper treatment — pills or infusions or electrical currents — depends on a kind of collaboration with Flaherty, a workshop in which motivations are re-examined, stories reshaped, turns of phrase redefined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These poor patients are typically seen as just not wanting to get better, and I got interested in that whole thing, like if you want to get better then you’re sick, if you don’t want to get better, then it’s a vice,” she said. “What was it about us — the caregivers, family members, and doctors — what was it that made us attribute willfulness to people who were obviously miserable?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her schedule is stacked with examples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was the Parkinson’s patient who was able to move when playing with grandchildren but not when asked to take out the trash. “The spouse is like, ‘Bullshit, you’re just not trying,’ and that’s totally true. … They lack dopamine, which is very important for motivation,” Flaherty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was the medical student who’d become catatonic when faced with an exam, and was accused of wanting, at some level, to jettison his career.[contextly_sidebar id=\"FisPQhjLXG17zQFS91fSEnl0b6zkrL5D\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was the woman who came in with an anxiety-related tremor but insisted that, no, these shakes weren’t psychological. “You have to convince them, yes, you really are sick, I understand that, or they’ll never trust you,” Flaherty said. “And they are really sick, they’re disabled, totally.” Then, with a careful tweaking of language, she was able to prescribe the Valium that the patient had been refusing from other doctors, and the tremor faded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To some, she might sound like a shrink tucked away inside a movement disorder clinic, and that isn’t entirely wrong. Historically, psychiatrists and neurologists often kept to their own floors, as if the feeling-thinking brain and the physical brain were two different organs. Flaherty was merging both long before it became a trend, explained Dr. Jerrold Rosenbaum, Mass. General’s psychiatrist-in-chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we had a complicated patient … and we needed a neurologist who understood how we think, Alice would be our go-to consultant. She’s a great bridge,” he said. “She’s more sophisticated with the use of our drugs than many of us are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn’t quite cover Flaherty’s unique role in the biome of Boston medicine. When the novelist William Styron was weighed down by depression, movement issues, and delusions — he thought that his writing hand had gone dead and his head was shrinking to the size of a pin — he sought out Flaherty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She makes a habit of befriending her patients and counseling her friends. She sometimes worries her colleagues might see her as too empathetic, too credulous, too boundary-breaking. Then again, she knows from her own experience with mental illness that the opposite — an excess of formality, stiffness, distrust — can be worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flaherty had heard about Stephanie Zaia before they’d ever met. Clinicians talk, and a case like Zaia’s made them talk more than usual. Her symptoms seemed so strange, and so complicated, that they were picked apart during grand rounds, at medical meetings, and in hospital staff rooms. What struck Flaherty was that her colleagues seemed to suggest that Zaia had invented her own bodily inferno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trouble began when Zaia was a 14-year-old in Medfield, Mass. She was a competitive swimmer, obsessed enough to make her parents drive her to practices at 5:30 a.m. She swam every weekday, spent her weekends at meets, but all of a sudden, at the end of a race in May 2003, her body went limp and she couldn’t get out of the pool.[contextly_sidebar id=\"YgnHkwDfRuaRza68Zle6mgr7qAhNQXhh\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she began having trouble moving elsewhere, too. Walking became hard. Sometimes she struggled to breathe. She stopped being able to digest, vomiting up almost everything she ate. She began to shed weight that she couldn’t afford to lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her parents brought her to neurologists and psychiatrists and specialists of the gut, bouncing from practice to practice, from Massachusetts all the way to Maryland. They kept telling Zaia the same thing again and again: “They’d say, ‘Oh, it’s all in your head,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Zaia and her parents went along with the idea. They probed her past for possible instances of trauma, but could find nothing besides garden-variety middle-school meanness from other kids, which hadn’t gone on for very long anyway. And the suggestions of depression and anorexia didn’t seem to add up with her mounting difficulty to move. “‘You’re trying not to walk because you hate to swim.’ That’s what they said,” Zaia recalled. “They were just like, ‘It’s a conversion disorder: You’re converting your not wanting to do this into physical symptoms.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter what she said, she couldn’t convince them that she wanted nothing more than to be able to swim again. Nor could she convince them, when they claimed her muscle spasms were an embodiment of her jealousy toward her siblings, that she did not feel jealous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her medical file began to take on an authority of its own, as if the hypothesis that her illness was psychological had, through repetition, become a fact. Doctors couldn’t unearth some underlying cause for the muscle tightness, and could find no relation to the mutiny in her gut. But there, in the pages of her record, was an explanation capable of tying these disparate threads together. The symptoms didn’t make sense, they thought, because she was, in some subconscious stratum, making them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only after years, in 2006, that Zaia got a diagnosis of primary dystonia — a condition characterized by involuntary muscle contractions — and learned just how common this kind of accusation is. “I’ve met lots of patients who spend five years being misdiagnosed,” said Pamela Sloate, a patient activist and board member of the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation. “They don’t have the skills to diagnose dystonia, so they tell the patient it’s imagined, or that it’s caused by depression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That can have a profound effect. As Zaia put it, “When somebody tells you that enough times, you start to believe it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Self-blame is something that Flaherty is familiar with. She felt it acutely in 1998, when her twin boys died immediately after birth. They were premature, so tiny their hands could hardly fit around her finger. To bury their ashes, she secretly took a folding shovel into Mount Auburn Cemetery to look for a spot where no one would see her digging. She chose a patch of shrubbery beside a pond grown green with duckweed: It reminded her of the scummy pool back home.[contextly_sidebar id=\"rhuJ5KiqdPloHZe58oqJ8GhRRj1a2q7n\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten days after their death, her sadness morphed into an overwhelming desire to write. She wrote on everything: paper, napkins, computers, her own skin. She’d written plenty before — waking up early to write a neurology handbook while she was a resident — but now it was uncontrollable, and the style had changed. “Looking at this stuff, I’m like, ‘Oh my, God, this is like teen diary garbage,’” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She bounced between mania and depression, becoming obsessed with the idea that she’d been a bad mother, that it was all her fault. She knew, on the one hand, that she was sick — she’d been newly diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and was taking a pharmacopeia of pills — but also felt that her illness wasn’t real, that she was just fishing for attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most painful part of it was I thought I was making it up,” she said. “I thought I was this total loser that was making up something that had me in the hospital for nine days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, she couldn’t physically lift her hand to her mouth to take her meds. She’d rock her arm back and forth, coaxing herself, like a volleyball player preparing to make a serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was consumed by the doublethink of depression. She knew her symptoms weren’t fictional, but what if they were all in her head? She knew her obstetrician didn’t hate her, but what if he did? She wanted him to say that something terrible had happened. She wanted him to echo her own distress. She wanted him to cry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flaherty suspected the episode would end her medical career. Her colleagues told her not to tell anyone, but she was manic, and told everyone. She wrote about her illness in her book “The Midnight Disease,” and her story wound up in the glossy pages of magazines. Patients could idly flip through her postpartum mania while waiting for their appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people who are most afraid of mental illness are doctors,” Flaherty said. “It turned out my patients were fine with it. … One guy said, ‘Yeah, that manic depressive thing you have, my internist has that. … Every six months or so, they have to lock him up, because he runs down the middle of the street naked. But I stay with him because he’s a really good doctor when he’s not crazy.’”[contextly_sidebar id=\"AQvxss0iAWMjp5nhtNV4d3hmbJrV2oIX\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as her mood stabilizers did their job, the impressions she had during illness stayed vivid: her conviction that she’d created her own symptoms, her over-analysis of her obstetrician’s veneer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She knows from experience how imperious doctors can be. … When you’re really in a lot of pain, or not sleeping, or whatever, in an acute phase, you feel like a supplicant,” said journalist and author Pagan Kennedy. The two had met in a local writers’ group, and when Kennedy experienced a mysterious bout of insomnia and acute pain, Flaherty counseled her not to rush into surgery, and checked in with her every day, listening. Kennedy is now making a podcast about Flaherty’s treatment of Styron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same skills that cement a friendship, Flaherty has found, are useful clinical tools. But bedside manner hasn’t come naturally to her. “I didn’t have any body language,” she said. “I was brought up in this WASP community with 500 guns in the basement. … We communicated by raising our eyebrows one teeny little tiny bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she sometimes glances at a mirror hidden in among the drawings and plants of her office, checking her own features, making sure she echoes the patient’s devastation or anger or joy. Above all — whether the symptoms are psychological, physical, or some combination of the two — she wants them to feel heard. By now, after years of practice, she says that most of the emotions behind her gestures are real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Flaherty finally met her, in the fall of 2012, Zaia had been sick for almost 10 years. She needed a wheelchair, and her muscles were so tight she was not able to sit up. Every so often, she’d get dystonic storms: Her back would arch so she couldn’t breathe, her neck yanked backwards, her arms pinned behind her, her legs pulled as far as they would go. “I would turn into a literal pretzel,” she said.[contextly_sidebar id=\"IBjHyTyOkXKgQvZHUH9PFd3FV0V9LNU5\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The relationship began as pure coincidence. Zaia was an inpatient at Mass. General, home sick from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Flaherty happened to be the neurologist on duty. It wasn’t just the medical crisis that was worrying Zaia’s parents. Her primary neurologist, who had been treating Zaia’s dystonia for years, had put a letter in the medical record that signaled a change of tune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was basically saying she had never believed Steph in the first place,” said her mother, Diane. “She basically treated Stephanie for dystonia for … years, and then said she did not have dystonia, and said that she was a wacko.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so Flaherty agreed to be Zaia’s neurologist. Already, to the family, that was a minor miracle. “No one wanted to touch me,” said Zaia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During those years, Zaia had thought she might end up bed-bound in a nursing home. Now, she’s up every morning at 5:15 to catch the 7:16 train from Dedham into South Station. Her work, at Easter Seals Massachusetts, a nonprofit that provides disability services, is only a block away. She also helps run her own organization, PATH-WAY, which puts together social gatherings accessible to everyone and anyone, no matter their physical ability. To find members, she went to support groups for illnesses she didn’t have. At the end of the day, she catches the 4:43 back to Dedham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This\u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/19/alice-flaherty-mass-general-neurologist/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> story\u003c/a> was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/19/alice-flaherty-mass-general-neurologist/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">STAT\u003c/a>, an online publication of Boston Globe Media that covers health, medicine, and scientific discovery.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Historically, psychiatrists and neurologists often kept to their own floors, as if the feeling-thinking brain and the physical brain were two different organs. Flaherty was merging both long before it became a trend, explained Dr. Jerrold Rosenbaum, Mass. General’s psychiatrist-in-chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we had a complicated patient … and we needed a neurologist who understood how we think, Alice would be our go-to consultant. She’s a great bridge,” he said. “She’s more sophisticated with the use of our drugs than many of us are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn’t quite cover Flaherty’s unique role in the biome of Boston medicine. When the novelist William Styron was weighed down by depression, movement issues, and delusions — he thought that his writing hand had gone dead and his head was shrinking to the size of a pin — he sought out Flaherty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She makes a habit of befriending her patients and counseling her friends. 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She was a competitive swimmer, obsessed enough to make her parents drive her to practices at 5:30 a.m. She swam every weekday, spent her weekends at meets, but all of a sudden, at the end of a race in May 2003, her body went limp and she couldn’t get out of the pool.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she began having trouble moving elsewhere, too. Walking became hard. Sometimes she struggled to breathe. She stopped being able to digest, vomiting up almost everything she ate. She began to shed weight that she couldn’t afford to lose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her parents brought her to neurologists and psychiatrists and specialists of the gut, bouncing from practice to practice, from Massachusetts all the way to Maryland. They kept telling Zaia the same thing again and again: “They’d say, ‘Oh, it’s all in your head,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Zaia and her parents went along with the idea. 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Doctors couldn’t unearth some underlying cause for the muscle tightness, and could find no relation to the mutiny in her gut. But there, in the pages of her record, was an explanation capable of tying these disparate threads together. The symptoms didn’t make sense, they thought, because she was, in some subconscious stratum, making them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only after years, in 2006, that Zaia got a diagnosis of primary dystonia — a condition characterized by involuntary muscle contractions — and learned just how common this kind of accusation is. “I’ve met lots of patients who spend five years being misdiagnosed,” said Pamela Sloate, a patient activist and board member of the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation. “They don’t have the skills to diagnose dystonia, so they tell the patient it’s imagined, or that it’s caused by depression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That can have a profound effect. As Zaia put it, “When somebody tells you that enough times, you start to believe it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Self-blame is something that Flaherty is familiar with. She felt it acutely in 1998, when her twin boys died immediately after birth. They were premature, so tiny their hands could hardly fit around her finger. To bury their ashes, she secretly took a folding shovel into Mount Auburn Cemetery to look for a spot where no one would see her digging. She chose a patch of shrubbery beside a pond grown green with duckweed: It reminded her of the scummy pool back home.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten days after their death, her sadness morphed into an overwhelming desire to write. She wrote on everything: paper, napkins, computers, her own skin. 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Patients could idly flip through her postpartum mania while waiting for their appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people who are most afraid of mental illness are doctors,” Flaherty said. “It turned out my patients were fine with it. … One guy said, ‘Yeah, that manic depressive thing you have, my internist has that. … Every six months or so, they have to lock him up, because he runs down the middle of the street naked. But I stay with him because he’s a really good doctor when he’s not crazy.’”\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as her mood stabilizers did their job, the impressions she had during illness stayed vivid: her conviction that she’d created her own symptoms, her over-analysis of her obstetrician’s veneer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She knows from experience how imperious doctors can be. … When you’re really in a lot of pain, or not sleeping, or whatever, in an acute phase, you feel like a supplicant,” said journalist and author Pagan Kennedy. The two had met in a local writers’ group, and when Kennedy experienced a mysterious bout of insomnia and acute pain, Flaherty counseled her not to rush into surgery, and checked in with her every day, listening. Kennedy is now making a podcast about Flaherty’s treatment of Styron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same skills that cement a friendship, Flaherty has found, are useful clinical tools. But bedside manner hasn’t come naturally to her. “I didn’t have any body language,” she said. “I was brought up in this WASP community with 500 guns in the basement. … We communicated by raising our eyebrows one teeny little tiny bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So she sometimes glances at a mirror hidden in among the drawings and plants of her office, checking her own features, making sure she echoes the patient’s devastation or anger or joy. Above all — whether the symptoms are psychological, physical, or some combination of the two — she wants them to feel heard. 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Her primary neurologist, who had been treating Zaia’s dystonia for years, had put a letter in the medical record that signaled a change of tune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was basically saying she had never believed Steph in the first place,” said her mother, Diane. “She basically treated Stephanie for dystonia for … years, and then said she did not have dystonia, and said that she was a wacko.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so Flaherty agreed to be Zaia’s neurologist. Already, to the family, that was a minor miracle. “No one wanted to touch me,” said Zaia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During those years, Zaia had thought she might end up bed-bound in a nursing home. Now, she’s up every morning at 5:15 to catch the 7:16 train from Dedham into South Station. Her work, at Easter Seals Massachusetts, a nonprofit that provides disability services, is only a block away. 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It’s bona fide emotion; it’s just not emotion that’s measured like it will be later in life, where you might say, ‘I’m attracted to this person, but there’s a lot of reasons why this may not be.’ It’s real but just feels unbridled. Teens have superheated limbic systems, so the emotional areas, the sexual incentive areas, are on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When Medication is Appropriate \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The onset of mental illness occurs in late teens, early adolescence. Schizophrenia, bipolar, depression, psychosis; they come in this window. And the reason for this is developmental. You need to have your prefrontal cortices at least partially connected in order to have the manifestation of these diseases that you might already have as a genetic predisposition. It’s a biological event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need to be aware that one in four people in our society have some form of mental illness, ranging from very mild anxiety to a major affective disorder. 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Plenty of them, says Head, \"overpromise and underdeliver.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Head decided to try the headset, called Halo Sport, during spring training last year\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—he gave them to s\u003c/span>ome minor leaguers to wear as they sprinted 20-yard dashes. 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They used to use electric fish to help migraines or gout or some other problems in ancient Egypt.’ \u003ccite>Theodore Zanto, UCSF neuroscientist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The earphones are actually just for show, allowing the wearer to use the technology \"without necessarily displaying it to the world,\" a spokesperson for Halo said. The electrodes in the $750 headset are hidden inside the band that connects the earphones. The electrodes target the motor cortex, which is the region of the brain located across the top of your head, spanning ear to ear. The motor cortex sends electrical signals from your neurons to targeted groups of muscle fibers, causing them to contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People like to say that electricity is the currency of the brain and that in many ways the brain is a circuit,\" says Marom Bikson, a professor of biomedical engineering at City College of New York. \"So when we apply electricity to the brain, we interact with that circuit, and we can change how that circuit works.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theodore Zanto, director of the Neuroscape Neuroscience Research Program at UCSF, thinks applying electricity to the motor cortex enables it to \"trigger the 'execute movement' signal faster,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiring the brain received a pretty bad rap last century when \u003ca href=\"http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/electroconvulsive-therapy/basics/definition/prc-20014161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">electroconvulsive therapy \u003c/a>was used to deliberately induce brain seizures in order to treat mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But tDCS uses a very low-voltage electrical charge\u003cb>. \u003c/b>Researchers say the major concerns are minor burns, itching, fatigue and nausea. 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He also says age, gender, ethnicity and illness can influence results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bikson says marketing claims about tDCS often exaggerate the results from lab studies. For example, researchers may measure how fast someone can press a sensor with their finger before and after wearing a tDCS device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And we may see a positive effect,\" says Bikson. \"But that is a world away, though, from a professional basketball player having a marginal improvement in their three-point success percentage after tDCS.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though a lot of the data is conflicting, the most positive results do support using tDCS to improve motor control. Hence the slew of startups targeting athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Giants' Head says even a tiny advantage can help win games at the major league level. An improvement of two-hundredths of a second can be \"the difference between safe and out sometimes,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'This is My Brain on Fire'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_383008\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-383008\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/IMG_1879-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">World record holding powerlifter Emily Hu wears Halo Sport headphones while she warms up at Boss Barbell gym in Mountain View. \u003ccite>(Lesley McClurg/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a Mountain View gym recently, Emily Hu, a world record holder in power lifting, tightened her silent black Halo headphones before sliding underneath a bar to bench press 220 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I feel the tingling sensation I think, ‘OK. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyler Beede, at least, is a believer. Watching a promotional video in which the Giants' top pitching prospect hurls pitch after pitch while wearing a set of headphones, you'd think he was listening to tunes. But he's not -- instead, he's getting the juice, tDCS-style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very unique feeling,\" Beede explains in the video. \"You put it on, and it does have that kind of tickling, zapping feeling on your brain, but that’s kind of the reason you know its working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beede, currently playing for the Giants' Sacramento AAA team, credits his \u003ca href=\"http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?player_id=595881#/career/R/pitching/2017/ALL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">improved pitching\u003c/a> in 2016 at least in part to the technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tech Central\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The headphones, from Halo Neuroscience, are just the latest health tech the team has sampled. Being in San Francisco, digital health startups frequently approach the club in hopes of getting a major league tryout, and Halo is located just blocks from the Giants' AT&T Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_385549\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/AustinSlaterCatching.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-385549\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/AustinSlaterCatching-1020x1275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/AustinSlaterCatching-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/AustinSlaterCatching-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/AustinSlaterCatching-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/AustinSlaterCatching-768x960.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/AustinSlaterCatching-1920x2400.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/AustinSlaterCatching-1180x1475.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/AustinSlaterCatching-960x1200.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/AustinSlaterCatching-240x300.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/AustinSlaterCatching-375x469.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/05/AustinSlaterCatching-520x650.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacramento River Cats catcher Austin Slater giving his brain a little electrical juice. \u003ccite>(Halo Neuroscience)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Head says his role as sports scientist is to \"weed through\" a lot of the gadgets that companies send the team's way. Plenty of them, says Head, \"overpromise and underdeliver.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Head decided to try the headset, called Halo Sport, during spring training last year\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">—he gave them to s\u003c/span>ome minor leaguers to wear as they sprinted 20-yard dashes. After two weeks, Head analyzed the results and found that the players who wore the equipment had\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>shaved off a few one-hundredths of a second compared to a control group.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the promotional video, Beede says, \"Your brain just becomes so in tune with what you’ve been doing that it can memorize your movements to help you go to that next level.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Targeting the Motor Cortex\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using Halo's headset is kind of like plugging your brain into a 9-volt battery\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> giving your neurons a little extra jolt and priming them for action.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Brain stimulation has been around since recorded history. They used to use electric fish to help migraines or gout or some other problems in ancient Egypt.’ \u003ccite>Theodore Zanto, UCSF neuroscientist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The earphones are actually just for show, allowing the wearer to use the technology \"without necessarily displaying it to the world,\" a spokesperson for Halo said. The electrodes in the $750 headset are hidden inside the band that connects the earphones. The electrodes target the motor cortex, which is the region of the brain located across the top of your head, spanning ear to ear. The motor cortex sends electrical signals from your neurons to targeted groups of muscle fibers, causing them to contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People like to say that electricity is the currency of the brain and that in many ways the brain is a circuit,\" says Marom Bikson, a professor of biomedical engineering at City College of New York. \"So when we apply electricity to the brain, we interact with that circuit, and we can change how that circuit works.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theodore Zanto, director of the Neuroscape Neuroscience Research Program at UCSF, thinks applying electricity to the motor cortex enables it to \"trigger the 'execute movement' signal faster,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiring the brain received a pretty bad rap last century when \u003ca href=\"http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/electroconvulsive-therapy/basics/definition/prc-20014161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">electroconvulsive therapy \u003c/a>was used to deliberately induce brain seizures in order to treat mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But tDCS uses a very low-voltage electrical charge\u003cb>. \u003c/b>Researchers say the major concerns are minor burns, itching, fatigue and nausea. 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"content": "\u003cp>Katherine Stevenson was 8 when she joined a UCSF study to test the effects of a video game on kids like her with \u003ca href=\"https://www.spdstar.org/basic/about-spd\" target=\"_blank\">sensory processing dysfunction\u003c/a>, or SPD, a collection of symptoms where the brain has trouble filtering incoming information -- like sounds and instructions -- in organized, focused ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katherine is a happy, outgoing child with a high overall IQ, but her cognitive speed (relating to response and performance) is low in comparison to her critical thinking. Her main challenge is an auditory processing disorder that makes it hard for her to screen out certain sounds, because she hears them all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's almost like having a 500 horsepower engine that gets flooded,\" says her mom, Kori Stevenson.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s almost like having a 500 horsepower engine that gets flooded.'\u003ccite>Parent Kori Stevenson on her daughter's sensory processing dysfunction, or SPD\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The UCSF study, spearheaded in 2014 by two Department of Neurology professors, brought Katherine and 62 other elementary school kids (38 with SPD and 25 with typical development patterns) into a lab where an EEG machine tracked their brain activity while they followed computer prompts designed to measure their ability to focus and multitask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the real work began. The kids brought home iPads loaded with a special software designed to target and improve problems with thinking, reacting, and performing tasks. Twice a day, five days a week for a month, the kids spent 30 minutes maneuvering a cartoonish 3-D figure along a moving pathway without hitting the walls -- tilting, swiping and jabbing the iPad as the game made all kinds of sounds and other potential distractions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were times that it was really hard to for her,\" says Stevenson. \"There were some days when she breezed through and other days, she was in tears.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the month was over, and the kids were retested, Katherine's performance had improved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Her ability to focus was a little bit better. And she wasn’t as fatigued at the end of the day. Her ability to multitask improved,\" says Stevenson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katherine's experience was not unique. The UCSF study, \u003ca href=\"http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0172616\" target=\"_blank\">published \u003c/a>Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE, showed that while the iPad home training program benefited all the kids who participated to some extent, the results were even better for seven children (including Katherine), a subset of the 38 SPD children with symptoms of ADHD. This group dramatically overcame these issues, at least temporarily, after just a month of video play. Nine months later, those children had so improved (based on their parents' feedback) that they would no longer meet the clinical standard for symptoms of ADHD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Underserved Group\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Video games designed for kids with ADHD have received the most press. But for this study, UCSF Neurology professors Joaquin Anguera and Elyse Marco wanted to focus on an underserved group that doesn't get as much attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some brain training studies specifically target people with ADHD with \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnbc.com/2015/05/21/a-tech-start-up-making-a-play-for-billions-in-adhd-drug-market.html\">gaming products\u003c/a> -- a market ripe for profit, if it can be shown that such products really work. But \u003ca href=\"http://profiles.ucsf.edu/joaquin.anguera\">Anguera\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://anp.ucsf.edu/aboutus/faculty/emarco\">Marco\u003c/a> wanted to work with children with sensory processing dysfunction, a group Marco got to know through her pediatric clinical practice at UCSF. If you're not familiar with SPD, you're not alone. The disorder is thought to affect 5 percent of all U.S. children, but it's a poorly studied group. Symptoms vary widely, from children like Katherine Stevenson with auditory processing issues to something closer to autism spectrum disorder and ADHD. As such, it is often misdiagnosed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_366979\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-366979\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/04/Project-EVO-800x564.jpg\" alt=\"A child plays with Project: EVO, a video game software.\" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/04/Project-EVO-800x564.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/04/Project-EVO-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/04/Project-EVO-768x541.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/04/Project-EVO-1020x719.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/04/Project-EVO-960x677.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/04/Project-EVO-240x169.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/04/Project-EVO-375x264.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/04/Project-EVO-520x366.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/04/Project-EVO.jpg 1084w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child plays with Project: EVO, a video game software. \u003ccite>(Akili Interactive Labs)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The results\u003cem> \u003c/em>of the UCSF study challenge the notion that prolonged exposure to video games, iPads and other interactive technology turns toddlers into strung-out youngsters with an \u003ca href=\"http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/adhd/adhd-associated-video-game-addiction\">ADHD-like inability to focus on tasks\u003c/a> and get things done to completion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A preponderance of studies suggest that all that screen time \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/11/19/502610055/heavy-screen-time-rewires-young-brains-for-better-and-worse\">\u003cem>does\u003c/em> re-wire the brain\u003c/a>. But that may not be a bad thing -- especially for kids like Katherine, who can benefit from learning how to focus on a single goal-based task and block out any other distractions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fact that these parents reported persistent amounts of improvement for nine months – I think that’s really remarkable,\" says Anguera, lead author of the study. The results showed some parallels to his\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24005416\"> much-publicized 2013 \u003c/a>study where a different 3-D video game called Neuroracer trained seniors to multitask better than a group of 20-year-olds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Beyond the Hype\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the new study only included 63 kids, it was meant as more of a proof of concept experiment than a study meant to offer clinical conclusions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cognitive scientists bristle at suggestions that any of the newfangled cognitive training programs on the market can work for everyone. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cogmed.com/who-is-cogmed-for\">Cogmed \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.lumosity.com/\">Lumosity\u003c/a>, for example, target both children and adults with claims of improving attention and processing speed. The most common word experts use to describe them is \"exaggerated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Laura Carstensen, founding director of the \u003ca href=\"http://longevity3.stanford.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford Center on Longevity\u003c/a>, is one of the skeptics. “Can you improve your brain so that it’s faster, more adept, more vital?,\" she told KQED in 2010. \"That’s what the claims are, and I don’t think there’s really any evidence for that.\" In 2014, 73 experts signed an open letter (since taken offline) \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/23/brain-games-memory-loss-open-letter\">warning about\u003c/a> companies exploiting consumers with such claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anguera is the first to agree. \"You have all these problematic 'brain training' things, and it's fraught with snake oil,\" he says. \"There haven’t been very many studies that have shown any kind of difference, that it does work.\" [contextly_sidebar id=\"8fVx8JR3VjF4j4i929dImiQCARfor4l2\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main takeaway from this study, according to Anguera, is how well it demonstrates the need for personalized assessment before offering kids the brain-training programs of tomorrow. One size does not fit all; look at the fact that only a small subset of the study participants with SPD -- the cohort of SPD kids with hyperactivity or attention struggles -- showed long-term benefit from the video game training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It really gives us a perspective. If you’re going to use these types of technologies to improve people's attention, you need to be putting thought into it. Not everyone needs the same type of intervention, and the same types of intervention won't work for everyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, Anguera has confidence that the improvements his team observed were genuine, based on the fact that they were assessed with three different metrics: behavioral testing in the lab, parent surveys, and the use of EEG devices to measure brain waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anguera's team was particularly intrigued to watch a part of the pre-frontal lobe \"light up\" during EEG scans. It's the part of the brain that drives goal-directed activities, and researchers saw how much more responsive it became after kids had spent a month playing with the iPad. Scientists suspect that in kids with ADHD-like symptoms, the cognitive circuits at the front of the brain are not firing at the right time or they’re not firing enough, according to Anguera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers don't know exactly how, but it appears that \"pushing\" on, or repeatedly using, these circuits of attention strengthens them, like bicep training at the gym.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s very few of these cognitive training studies – maybe none – that show a signature that correlates with behavior on some test of attention and shows what’s happening,\" says Anguera. \"That's what makes this unique.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The fact that these parents reported persistent amounts of improvement for nine months – I think that’s really remarkable.'\u003ccite>Dr. Joaquin Anguera, UCSF\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The UCSF study used an iPad game called Project: EVO. In 2015, \u003ca href=\"http://www.akiliinteractive.com/\">Akili Interactive Labs\u003c/a>, the software developer, used it to \u003ca href=\"https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/23/video-game-is-built-to-be-prescribed-to-children-with-a-d-h-d/?_r=0\">measure the effects on a small group of children\u003c/a> with ADHD and a control group. The study found that, after playing the game five days a week for a month, the children with ADHD showed significant improvement and the control group did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Akili Interactive is now \u003ca href=\"http://nationaladhdstudy.com/\">testing their software \u003c/a>on hundreds of ADHD children at 13 study sites across the U.S. and aims to be first FDA-approved ADHD videogame\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/08/10/430149726/will-doctors-soon-be-prescribing-video-games-for-mental-health\"> doctors prescribe to parents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Katherine Stevenson was 8 when she joined a UCSF study to test the effects of a video game on kids like her with \u003ca href=\"https://www.spdstar.org/basic/about-spd\" target=\"_blank\">sensory processing dysfunction\u003c/a>, or SPD, a collection of symptoms where the brain has trouble filtering incoming information -- like sounds and instructions -- in organized, focused ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katherine is a happy, outgoing child with a high overall IQ, but her cognitive speed (relating to response and performance) is low in comparison to her critical thinking. Her main challenge is an auditory processing disorder that makes it hard for her to screen out certain sounds, because she hears them all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's almost like having a 500 horsepower engine that gets flooded,\" says her mom, Kori Stevenson.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s almost like having a 500 horsepower engine that gets flooded.'\u003ccite>Parent Kori Stevenson on her daughter's sensory processing dysfunction, or SPD\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The UCSF study, spearheaded in 2014 by two Department of Neurology professors, brought Katherine and 62 other elementary school kids (38 with SPD and 25 with typical development patterns) into a lab where an EEG machine tracked their brain activity while they followed computer prompts designed to measure their ability to focus and multitask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the real work began. The kids brought home iPads loaded with a special software designed to target and improve problems with thinking, reacting, and performing tasks. Twice a day, five days a week for a month, the kids spent 30 minutes maneuvering a cartoonish 3-D figure along a moving pathway without hitting the walls -- tilting, swiping and jabbing the iPad as the game made all kinds of sounds and other potential distractions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were times that it was really hard to for her,\" says Stevenson. \"There were some days when she breezed through and other days, she was in tears.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the month was over, and the kids were retested, Katherine's performance had improved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Her ability to focus was a little bit better. And she wasn’t as fatigued at the end of the day. Her ability to multitask improved,\" says Stevenson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katherine's experience was not unique. The UCSF study, \u003ca href=\"http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0172616\" target=\"_blank\">published \u003c/a>Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE, showed that while the iPad home training program benefited all the kids who participated to some extent, the results were even better for seven children (including Katherine), a subset of the 38 SPD children with symptoms of ADHD. This group dramatically overcame these issues, at least temporarily, after just a month of video play. Nine months later, those children had so improved (based on their parents' feedback) that they would no longer meet the clinical standard for symptoms of ADHD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Underserved Group\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Video games designed for kids with ADHD have received the most press. But for this study, UCSF Neurology professors Joaquin Anguera and Elyse Marco wanted to focus on an underserved group that doesn't get as much attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some brain training studies specifically target people with ADHD with \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnbc.com/2015/05/21/a-tech-start-up-making-a-play-for-billions-in-adhd-drug-market.html\">gaming products\u003c/a> -- a market ripe for profit, if it can be shown that such products really work. But \u003ca href=\"http://profiles.ucsf.edu/joaquin.anguera\">Anguera\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://anp.ucsf.edu/aboutus/faculty/emarco\">Marco\u003c/a> wanted to work with children with sensory processing dysfunction, a group Marco got to know through her pediatric clinical practice at UCSF. If you're not familiar with SPD, you're not alone. The disorder is thought to affect 5 percent of all U.S. children, but it's a poorly studied group. Symptoms vary widely, from children like Katherine Stevenson with auditory processing issues to something closer to autism spectrum disorder and ADHD. As such, it is often misdiagnosed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_366979\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-366979\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/04/Project-EVO-800x564.jpg\" alt=\"A child plays with Project: EVO, a video game software.\" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/04/Project-EVO-800x564.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/04/Project-EVO-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/04/Project-EVO-768x541.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/04/Project-EVO-1020x719.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/04/Project-EVO-960x677.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/04/Project-EVO-240x169.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/04/Project-EVO-375x264.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/04/Project-EVO-520x366.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2017/04/Project-EVO.jpg 1084w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child plays with Project: EVO, a video game software. \u003ccite>(Akili Interactive Labs)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The results\u003cem> \u003c/em>of the UCSF study challenge the notion that prolonged exposure to video games, iPads and other interactive technology turns toddlers into strung-out youngsters with an \u003ca href=\"http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/adhd/adhd-associated-video-game-addiction\">ADHD-like inability to focus on tasks\u003c/a> and get things done to completion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A preponderance of studies suggest that all that screen time \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/11/19/502610055/heavy-screen-time-rewires-young-brains-for-better-and-worse\">\u003cem>does\u003c/em> re-wire the brain\u003c/a>. But that may not be a bad thing -- especially for kids like Katherine, who can benefit from learning how to focus on a single goal-based task and block out any other distractions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fact that these parents reported persistent amounts of improvement for nine months – I think that’s really remarkable,\" says Anguera, lead author of the study. The results showed some parallels to his\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24005416\"> much-publicized 2013 \u003c/a>study where a different 3-D video game called Neuroracer trained seniors to multitask better than a group of 20-year-olds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Beyond the Hype\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the new study only included 63 kids, it was meant as more of a proof of concept experiment than a study meant to offer clinical conclusions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cognitive scientists bristle at suggestions that any of the newfangled cognitive training programs on the market can work for everyone. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cogmed.com/who-is-cogmed-for\">Cogmed \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.lumosity.com/\">Lumosity\u003c/a>, for example, target both children and adults with claims of improving attention and processing speed. The most common word experts use to describe them is \"exaggerated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Laura Carstensen, founding director of the \u003ca href=\"http://longevity3.stanford.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford Center on Longevity\u003c/a>, is one of the skeptics. “Can you improve your brain so that it’s faster, more adept, more vital?,\" she told KQED in 2010. \"That’s what the claims are, and I don’t think there’s really any evidence for that.\" In 2014, 73 experts signed an open letter (since taken offline) \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/23/brain-games-memory-loss-open-letter\">warning about\u003c/a> companies exploiting consumers with such claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anguera is the first to agree. \"You have all these problematic 'brain training' things, and it's fraught with snake oil,\" he says. \"There haven’t been very many studies that have shown any kind of difference, that it does work.\" \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main takeaway from this study, according to Anguera, is how well it demonstrates the need for personalized assessment before offering kids the brain-training programs of tomorrow. One size does not fit all; look at the fact that only a small subset of the study participants with SPD -- the cohort of SPD kids with hyperactivity or attention struggles -- showed long-term benefit from the video game training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It really gives us a perspective. If you’re going to use these types of technologies to improve people's attention, you need to be putting thought into it. Not everyone needs the same type of intervention, and the same types of intervention won't work for everyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, Anguera has confidence that the improvements his team observed were genuine, based on the fact that they were assessed with three different metrics: behavioral testing in the lab, parent surveys, and the use of EEG devices to measure brain waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anguera's team was particularly intrigued to watch a part of the pre-frontal lobe \"light up\" during EEG scans. It's the part of the brain that drives goal-directed activities, and researchers saw how much more responsive it became after kids had spent a month playing with the iPad. Scientists suspect that in kids with ADHD-like symptoms, the cognitive circuits at the front of the brain are not firing at the right time or they’re not firing enough, according to Anguera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers don't know exactly how, but it appears that \"pushing\" on, or repeatedly using, these circuits of attention strengthens them, like bicep training at the gym.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s very few of these cognitive training studies – maybe none – that show a signature that correlates with behavior on some test of attention and shows what’s happening,\" says Anguera. \"That's what makes this unique.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The fact that these parents reported persistent amounts of improvement for nine months – I think that’s really remarkable.'\u003ccite>Dr. Joaquin Anguera, UCSF\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The UCSF study used an iPad game called Project: EVO. 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These are people who can memorize a truly insane amount of information really quickly, like the order of playing cards in a deck in under 20 seconds, or 200 new names and faces in a matter of minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neuroscientists \u003ca href=\"http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(17)30087-9\">writing\u003c/a> Wednesday in the journal \u003cem>Neuron\u003c/em> found these champs of memorization aren't that different from the rest of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Subjects given memory training performed significantly better on memory tests compared to a control group.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"We were interested in what differentiates memory champions from normal people, like you and me,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.ru.nl/english/people/dresler-m/\">Martin Dresler\u003c/a>, a cognitive neuroscientist at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior at Radboud University in the Netherlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Were parts of their brains bigger, for example, or more dense with gray matter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find out, Dresler and \u003ca href=\"http://memory-sports.com/champion/boris-nikolai-konrad/\">Boris Nikolai Konrad\u003c/a> — a doctoral student in Dresler's lab who happens to be a memory champion himself — rounded up nearly two dozen champs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We really took the world's best memorizers — 23 memory champions out of the top 50 of the world. 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At least, no big, obvious difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was actually really a bit surprising,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, when Dresler and his colleagues did functional MRI scans, which measure brain activity by looking at how much blood is going to specific portions of it, they did see a subtle difference in brain activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When memory athletes were asked to recite a long list of memorized words, some portions of brain were activating in unison — making 25 connections that seemed particularly significant among different parts of the brain. The scientists didn't see that sort of unified activity in the brains of the regular subjects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, parts of the brain associated with memory and with spatial learning seemed to be interacting a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That makes sense, when you consider the tricks these athletes had learned to use when they memorize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They weren't born with extraordinary memorization skills. They had all learned and practiced the same kind of training to develop their seemingly superhuman abilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Memory Methods\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Konrad, the memorizing whiz in Dresler's lab who is also a co-author of the study, started using the memory strategy as a hobby in high school, after watching memory championships on TV. He holds the world record for memorizing faces and names — 201 people in 15 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I use my visual memory,\" says Konrad. 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The first location would be my bed, and the second one would be the shelf above my bed; then it's my desk, the computer on it, the window, the mirror and so on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To memorize abstract information, like a list of numbers, he would translate numbers into images and then distribute them along the mental path through his house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, to memorize my phone number, which starts with \"1202,\" Konrad transforms pairs of numbers into images, using something called the \u003ca href=\"http://major-system.info/en/\">Major System\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The combination \"1-2,\" for example, brings to mind (for him) a dinosaur, Konrad says. \"So I would then picture a dinosaur standing on my bed,\" says Konrad. \"It's a weird image. That's why it sticks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And then, 0-2 would be a sun. So, I would picture the sun illuminating the shelf over my bed,\" he says. And so on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Memory Training Succeeds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a second part of their study, Konrad and Dresler recruited 51 university students, and had one third of them do memory palace training for six weeks — once a week in person with Konrad, and half an hour a day at home on the computer. 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This is by far the largest,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://psych.wustl.edu/memory/roediger.html\">Roddy Roediger\u003c/a>, a psychologist with Washington University in St Louis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roediger has studied people with exceptional memory for a long time. He says people knew that something different had to be going on inside the brains of these people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These people are the first to really uncover what that something may be,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>But Wait: The Fine Print\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this method of memory training is not the key to unlocking intelligence. 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"content": "\u003cp>I'll admit it. I even take my phone with me to fire off a few texts when I go to the restroom. Or I'll scroll through my email when I leave the office for lunch. My eyes are often glued to my phone from the moment I wake up, but I often reach the end of my days wondering what I've accomplished.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>Tips for Productivity at Work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Start by clearing off your work space. Remove mobile devices and any extraneous papers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Use one computer screen. Shut down all unnecessary programs and apps. Open one browser and use only one tab.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Turn off email.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Set expectations. Tell your boss you’re going offline for a while. Or, set an auto response for both your texts and emails explaining that you’ll be offline for a set period of time.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Work in a quiet environment devoid of people. 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Gazzaley pulled up, on a TV screen, a 3-D image of a brain, created from an MRI Scan. He pointed to different sections to explain what's going on when our attention flits between tasks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"mQNeLsl599Zl2MgROKE009FDdid0LEJr\"]\"The prefrontal cortex is the area most challenged,\" Gazzely says. \"And then visual areas, auditory areas, and the hippocampus — these networks are really what's challenged when we are constantly switching between multiple tasks that our technological world might throw at us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">If you're working on a project and you stop to answer an email, research shows, it will take you nearly a half-hour to get back on task.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When you engage in one task at a time, the prefrontal cortex works in harmony with other parts of the brain, but when you toss in another task it forces the left and right sides of the brain to work independently. The process of splitting our attention usually leads to mistakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, each time our eyes glance away from our computer monitor to sneak a peak at a text message, the brain takes in new information, which reduces our primary focus. We \u003cem>think\u003c/em> the mind can juggle two or three activities successfully at once, but Gazzaley says we woefully overestimate our ability to multitask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"An example is when you attempt to check your email while on a conference call,\" says Gazzaley. \"The act of doing that makes it so incredibly obvious how you can't really parallel process two attention-demanding tasks. You either have to catch up and ask what happened in the conversation, or you have to read over the email before you send it — if you're wise!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Answering an Email Takes A Lot Longer Than You Think\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gazzaley stresses that our tendency to respond immediately to emails and texts hinders high-level thinking. If you're working on a project and you stop to answer an email, the \u003ca href=\"http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/horvitz/CHI_2007_Iqbal_Horvitz.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">research\u003c/a> shows, it will take you nearly a half-hour to get back on task.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Research has found that high-tech jugglers struggle to pay attention, recall information, or complete one task at a time.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"When a focused stream of thought is interrupted it needs to be reset,\" explains Gazzaley. \"You can't just press a button and switch back to it. You have to re-engage those thought processes, and recreate all the elements of what you were engaged in. That takes time, and frequently one interruption leads to another.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, repetitively switching tasks lowers performance and productivity because your brain can only fully and efficiently focus on one thing at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_262693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-262693\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/Gazzeley-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"When UCSF neuroscientist Adam Gazzeley needs to focus on a high level project he clears his desk, works on one screen and turns off all distracting digital devices.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/Gazzeley-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/Gazzeley-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/Gazzeley-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/Gazzeley-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/Gazzeley-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/Gazzeley-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When UCSF neuroscientist Adam Gazzeley needs to focus on a high level project he clears his desk, works on one screen and turns off all distracting digital devices. \u003ccite>(Sierra Niblett )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Plus, \u003ca href=\"http://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/social-media/multitasking-social-media-distraction-what-does-research-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mounting evidence\u003c/a> shows that multitasking could impair the brain's cognitive abilities. \u003ca href=\"http://news.stanford.edu/2009/08/24/multitask-research-study-082409/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stanford researchers\u003c/a> studied the minds of people who regularly engage in several digital communication streams at once. They found that high-tech jugglers struggle to pay attention, recall information, or complete one task at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they’re in situations where there are multiple sources of information coming from the external world or emerging out of memory, they’re not able to filter out what’s not relevant to their current goal,” says Stanford neuroscientist\u003ca href=\"https://psychology.stanford.edu/awagner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Anthony Wagner\u003c/a>. “That failure to filter means they’re slowed down by that irrelevant information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers are still studying what's causing multitaskers to perform poorly on cognitive tests. It could be that they are born with an inability to concentrate, or digital distractions are taking a toll. In any case, the researchers believe the minds of multitaskers are not performing optimally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the habit of multitasking could lower your score on an IQ test, according to researchers at the \u003ca href=\"http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1465496/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of London\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Creating Digital Boundaries\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don't worry. Gazzaley says. It’s not about opting out of technology. In fact, there's a time and place for multitasking. If you’re in the midst of a mundane task that just has to get done, it’s probably not detrimental to have your phone nearby or a bunch of tabs open. The distractions may reduce boredom and help you stay engaged. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, each time our eyes glance away from our computer monitor to sneak a peak at a text message, the brain takes in new information, which reduces our primary focus. We \u003cem>think\u003c/em> the mind can juggle two or three activities successfully at once, but Gazzaley says we woefully overestimate our ability to multitask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"An example is when you attempt to check your email while on a conference call,\" says Gazzaley. \"The act of doing that makes it so incredibly obvious how you can't really parallel process two attention-demanding tasks. You either have to catch up and ask what happened in the conversation, or you have to read over the email before you send it — if you're wise!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Answering an Email Takes A Lot Longer Than You Think\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gazzaley stresses that our tendency to respond immediately to emails and texts hinders high-level thinking. If you're working on a project and you stop to answer an email, the \u003ca href=\"http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/horvitz/CHI_2007_Iqbal_Horvitz.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">research\u003c/a> shows, it will take you nearly a half-hour to get back on task.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Research has found that high-tech jugglers struggle to pay attention, recall information, or complete one task at a time.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"When a focused stream of thought is interrupted it needs to be reset,\" explains Gazzaley. \"You can't just press a button and switch back to it. You have to re-engage those thought processes, and recreate all the elements of what you were engaged in. That takes time, and frequently one interruption leads to another.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, repetitively switching tasks lowers performance and productivity because your brain can only fully and efficiently focus on one thing at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_262693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-262693\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/Gazzeley-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"When UCSF neuroscientist Adam Gazzeley needs to focus on a high level project he clears his desk, works on one screen and turns off all distracting digital devices.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/Gazzeley-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/Gazzeley-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/Gazzeley-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/Gazzeley-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/Gazzeley-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2016/10/Gazzeley-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When UCSF neuroscientist Adam Gazzeley needs to focus on a high level project he clears his desk, works on one screen and turns off all distracting digital devices. \u003ccite>(Sierra Niblett )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Plus, \u003ca href=\"http://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/social-media/multitasking-social-media-distraction-what-does-research-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mounting evidence\u003c/a> shows that multitasking could impair the brain's cognitive abilities. \u003ca href=\"http://news.stanford.edu/2009/08/24/multitask-research-study-082409/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stanford researchers\u003c/a> studied the minds of people who regularly engage in several digital communication streams at once. They found that high-tech jugglers struggle to pay attention, recall information, or complete one task at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they’re in situations where there are multiple sources of information coming from the external world or emerging out of memory, they’re not able to filter out what’s not relevant to their current goal,” says Stanford neuroscientist\u003ca href=\"https://psychology.stanford.edu/awagner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Anthony Wagner\u003c/a>. “That failure to filter means they’re slowed down by that irrelevant information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers are still studying what's causing multitaskers to perform poorly on cognitive tests. It could be that they are born with an inability to concentrate, or digital distractions are taking a toll. In any case, the researchers believe the minds of multitaskers are not performing optimally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the habit of multitasking could lower your score on an IQ test, according to researchers at the \u003ca href=\"http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1465496/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of London\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Creating Digital Boundaries\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don't worry. Gazzaley says. It’s not about opting out of technology. In fact, there's a time and place for multitasking. If you’re in the midst of a mundane task that just has to get done, it’s probably not detrimental to have your phone nearby or a bunch of tabs open. The distractions may reduce boredom and help you stay engaged. 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"content": "\u003cp>We all know that texting while driving is \u003ca href=\"http://journalistsresource.org/studies/environment/transportation/multitasking-texting-and-distracted-driving-academics-discuss-the-cognitive-effects-and-risks\" target=\"_blank\">perilous\u003c/a> and answering a phone during a face to face conversation is rude. Many of us now understand that screen time before bed \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2016/03/01/once-again-reminder-for-the-sleepless-quit-checking-your-email/\">inhibits sleep\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"eNzQ8IsiA6FljS77Q2owwiTNbjQ5luPK\"]And, as we recently \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2016/10/17/your-devices-are-probably-lowering-your-productivity-heres-why/\" target=\"_blank\">reported\u003c/a>, we only \u003cem>think\u003c/em> we can multitask, when in fact \u003ca href=\"http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/horvitz/CHI_2007_Iqbal_Horvitz.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">research\u003c/a> shows the process of splitting our attention usually leads to delays and mistakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, with all this awareness of how the digital world overwhelms us, breaking this destructive tether seems near impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does Your Heart Skip a Beat When Your Phone Dies?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"#tips\">8 tips for detaching from your phone\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>If you need a little more incentive, though, research continues to pile up on the psychological effects of digital dependence. \u003cem>Smartphone separation anxiety--\u003c/em>that's actually a thing. Researchers are calling it \u003ca href=\"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-study-nomophobia-mdash-fear-of-being-without-a-mobile-phone/\" target=\"_blank\">nomophobia\u003c/a> (no-mobile phone phobia), and Iowa State University academics have devised a \u003ca href=\"http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2015/08/26/nomophobia\" target=\"_blank\">questionnaire\u003c/a> to diagnose it. (Rate on a scale of one to seven if \"Running out of battery in my smartphone would scare me.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEEzoUeb15A\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, there are some practical strategies to break nomophobia and increase health and well-being. UCSF neuroscientist Dr. Adam Gazzeley and California State University, Dominguez Hills professor emeritus Larry D. Rosen offer tips in their new book, \"\u003ca href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/distracted\" target=\"_blank\">The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High Tech World\u003c/a>.\" We've categorized them into three areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"tips\">\u003c/a>\u003cb>Socializing\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though social media allows us to collect thousands of digital friends, our physical relationships are taking a hit. \u003ca href=\"http://eab.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/05/31/0013916514539755\" target=\"_blank\">Research \u003c/a>shows that digital devices are impacting closeness and connection with loved ones. One \u003ca href=\"http://spr.sagepub.com/content/30/3/237.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> found a correlation between the mere presence of a phone at the dinner table and a diminished sense of trust and empathy between individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Tips\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Declare places like the dining room to be technology-free zones.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When engaging in an important conversation, set a timer for a predetermined period during which you and the person you're talking to will refrain from checking your phones.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If you’re worried about missing urgent calls, then use an app like \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sifakas.essential.calls&hl=en\">Essential Calls\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noshufou.selectivesilence&hl=en\">Selective Silence\u003c/a> for Android devices, or Do Not Disturb coupled with the Allow Calls function on an iPhone.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sleep\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I used to think it was relaxing to scroll through my email or Facebook feed one last time before shutting my eyes at night, but screen time \u003ca href=\"https://sleep.org/articles/ways-technology-affects-sleep/\" target=\"_blank\">messes \u003c/a>with your sleep. The blue light emitted by a smartphone or tablet affects melatonin, a hormone that controls the natural sleep-wake cycle. 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Hand-free devices, you should consider, are not the solution; A recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/motr/even-hands-free-devices-are-dangerously-distracting.html\">study\u003c/a> revealed that drivers can remain distracted for up to 27 seconds after hanging up a call, even if it was enabled by a voice assistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Transportation \u003ca href=\"https://www.transportation.gov/tags/distracted-driving\">reports\u003c/a> that in 2013 distracted driving claimed 3,154 lives and injured an estimated 424,000 Americans, all of which were 100 percent preventable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Tips\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Leave your phone in your trunk with the Bluetooth off.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If that’s too much to bear, give your device to a passenger to monitor.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Apps can help. \u003ca href=\"http://www.getsafedrive.com/\">SafeDrive\u003c/a> gives you points when you restrict yourself from your phone while you're driving faster than 6 mph. 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Rosen offer tips in their new book, \"\u003ca href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/distracted\" target=\"_blank\">The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High Tech World\u003c/a>.\" We've categorized them into three areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"tips\">\u003c/a>\u003cb>Socializing\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though social media allows us to collect thousands of digital friends, our physical relationships are taking a hit. \u003ca href=\"http://eab.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/05/31/0013916514539755\" target=\"_blank\">Research \u003c/a>shows that digital devices are impacting closeness and connection with loved ones. One \u003ca href=\"http://spr.sagepub.com/content/30/3/237.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> found a correlation between the mere presence of a phone at the dinner table and a diminished sense of trust and empathy between individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Tips\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Declare places like the dining room to be technology-free zones.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When engaging in an important conversation, set a timer for a predetermined period during which you and the person you're talking to will refrain from checking your phones.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If you’re worried about missing urgent calls, then use an app like \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sifakas.essential.calls&hl=en\">Essential Calls\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noshufou.selectivesilence&hl=en\">Selective Silence\u003c/a> for Android devices, or Do Not Disturb coupled with the Allow Calls function on an iPhone.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sleep\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I used to think it was relaxing to scroll through my email or Facebook feed one last time before shutting my eyes at night, but screen time \u003ca href=\"https://sleep.org/articles/ways-technology-affects-sleep/\" target=\"_blank\">messes \u003c/a>with your sleep. 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Hand-free devices, you should consider, are not the solution; A recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/motr/even-hands-free-devices-are-dangerously-distracting.html\">study\u003c/a> revealed that drivers can remain distracted for up to 27 seconds after hanging up a call, even if it was enabled by a voice assistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Transportation \u003ca href=\"https://www.transportation.gov/tags/distracted-driving\">reports\u003c/a> that in 2013 distracted driving claimed 3,154 lives and injured an estimated 424,000 Americans, all of which were 100 percent preventable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Tips\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Leave your phone in your trunk with the Bluetooth off.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If that’s too much to bear, give your device to a passenger to monitor.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Apps can help. \u003ca href=\"http://www.getsafedrive.com/\">SafeDrive\u003c/a> gives you points when you restrict yourself from your phone while you're driving faster than 6 mph. 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"content": "\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7LPa5JPB-4&ab_channel=CNN\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers in Brazil who are trying to help people with spine injuries gain mobility have made a surprising discovery: Injured people doing brain training while interacting with robot-like machines were able to regain some sensation and movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">For the first time in many years, eight paralyzed people were able to voluntarily control their muscles.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/srep30383\">findings\u003c/a>, published in \u003cem>Scientific Reports\u003c/em> (one of the \u003cem>Nature\u003c/em> journals), suggest that damaged spinal tissue in some people with paraplegia can be retrained to a certain extent — somewhat the way certain people can regain some brain function following stroke though repetition and practice. In fact, this isn't a new idea for treating injuries of the spinal cord. Even people with severe injuries can regain some sensation and function through physical therapy if some nerve fibers remain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eight paralyzed people in the Brazilian study didn't regain enough mobility to support their own weight on their legs, but \u003ca href=\"http://bme.duke.edu/faculty/miguel-nicolelis\">Dr. Miguel Nicolelis\u003c/a>, a neuroscientist and physician with Duke University who led the research, says his experimental subjects did make \"partial recovery\" — improvements that significantly helped their quality of life. They had better control of bowel and bladder functions, he says. Some men were able to have erections and one woman decided to deliver a baby vaginally. \"She could feel the baby for the first time,\" he says. \"She could feel the contractions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study of the first 12 months of training didn't document the most dramatic quality-of-life improvements that Nicolelis announced in a telephone briefing with reporters. But it did describe some of the improvements in sensation and movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicolelis previously garnered worldwide publicity for his work by arranging for one of his patients to kick out a ceremonial soccer ball during the World Cup tournament in Rio de Janeiro in 2014. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2014/06/08/320077425/scientist-touts-exoskeleton-that-could-offer-a-chance-to-walk-again\">build-up\u003c/a> for that moment was more dramatic than \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inCvbDLfXBo\">the actual event\u003c/a>. But it did highlight Nicolelis' ambitious efforts to help people with paralysis improve their mobility through robotics, through an international scientific collaboration known as the \u003ca href=\"http://virtualreality.duke.edu/project/walk-again-project/\">Walk Again Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other research groups are pursuing similar strategies, and there are several products on the market that help people with spinal cord injuries to walk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his work, Nicolelis and his team \u003ca href=\"http://www.nicolelislab.net/\">trained people\u003c/a> with paraplegia to visualize moving their muscles, by having them wear virtual reality goggles and giving them tactile feedback on their arms. The idea was to create brain signals that could be picked up by electrodes and used to control the bulky robotic apparatus. Nicolelis was surprised to see that, as people improved their ability to visualize limb movements, they were also regaining some feeling and movement as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His patients had been paralyzed for three to 13 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For the first time in many years they were able to voluntarily control their muscles,\" he says. \"They could move their legs or contract muscles under voluntary control.\" Some people had their level of paralysis upgraded to a less severe rating of \"incomplete paraplegia.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This has not been seen before,\" he says. \"I call this an important milestone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"http://www.rehabmed.emory.edu/pt/faculty/field-fote.shtml\">Edelle Field-Fote\u003c/a>, director of spinal cord injury research at the Shepherd Center at Emory University, wasn't so rhapsodic. \"I would not say it's unprecedented,\" she tells Shots. \"I'd say the \u003cem>intervention\u003c/em> [used in Brazil] is unprecedented.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3-Pronged Approach\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicolelis' therapy involves not just the virtual-reality training; it includes physical therapy and extensive stimulation as the robotic machines move their muscles. \"If you gave anybody [with some remaining spinal cord] 12 months of therapy, you'd see improvement,\" Field-Fote says, even years after an injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She notes that at the outset of the study, all the participants had some ability to walk — with assistance from crutches, walkers, braces and in some cases human attendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you exercise with the body-weight support and treadmill training, you also get improvements,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.themiamiproject.org/research/faculty/monica-perez/\">Monica Perez\u003c/a>, a scientist at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis who studies mechanisms involved in the control of human movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The question is whether this is superior to previous approaches and which are the mechanisms,\" Perez says. \"This was a long period of training, so it's hard to compare.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings from Brazil raise the possibility that more prolonged efforts to restore some movement in paralyzed people could pay off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Overall, the study is plausible and interesting,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.ninds.nih.gov/find_people/ninds/pdbio_lyn_jakeman.htm\">Dr. Lyn Jakeman\u003c/a>, a neuroscientist who oversees extramural research on spinal cord injury for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. But she also notes that the participants had so many different interventions, it's not entirely clear whether the visualization exercises or some other combination of factors was responsible for the reported effects. And the study had no control group for comparison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These independent experts couldn't evaluate the claims Nicolelis made in his press call but didn't include in his published report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicolelis tells reporters that two women in his study who had been paralyzed for more than a decade showed the most improvement. They \"can generate leg movements, move their legs out and in and flex their knees,\" he says. Some of that is captured in a \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/9W0LDAK7mZQ\">video\u003c/a> he released with the published study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are continuously improving,\" he says, beyond what he reports in his peer-reviewed paper. One woman now has enough mobility to get out and about, Nicolelis said. \"Now she can sit [and] she can basically drive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicolelis says it's possible that people with even weak muscles in their legs can more easily control the robotic machinery that he and his collaborators are developing. He suspects that residual nerve fibers through the spinal injury are able to carry sensations up to the brain, along with some rudimentary commands from the brain down to the muscles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other researchers internationally are pursuing \u003ca href=\"http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/sci/detail_sci.htm\">several different approaches\u003c/a> to treating spinal injuries. Those include drugs to limit the damage caused by an injury, along with various approaches to cell transplantation, as well as electrical stimulation and efforts to retrain the central nervous system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are roughly 25 million people worldwide with severe spinal injuries. Nicolelis acknowledges that his experiments have been expensive. But if the virtual reality training is indeed key to the improvements he has documented, that could be the basis of less expensive therapy, he believes. Given the success he has seen with his first eight volunteers, he says, he's planning to expand his research to a new study group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. 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But it did highlight Nicolelis' ambitious efforts to help people with paralysis improve their mobility through robotics, through an international scientific collaboration known as the \u003ca href=\"http://virtualreality.duke.edu/project/walk-again-project/\">Walk Again Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other research groups are pursuing similar strategies, and there are several products on the market that help people with spinal cord injuries to walk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his work, Nicolelis and his team \u003ca href=\"http://www.nicolelislab.net/\">trained people\u003c/a> with paraplegia to visualize moving their muscles, by having them wear virtual reality goggles and giving them tactile feedback on their arms. The idea was to create brain signals that could be picked up by electrodes and used to control the bulky robotic apparatus. 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