App helps improve memory of patients with schizophrenia

Teacher Barbara Sahakian from the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge and her group of scientists developed and checked Wizard, an iPad video game targeted at improving an individual’s anecdotal memory. Episodic memory is the type of memory required when you …See all stories on this topic

Government target for 5,000 more family doctors by 2020 jeopardised as training locations for new GPs left unfilled

“HEE is looking at encouraging doctors to train in locations where it has typically been hard to hire GPs. This will certainly be through providing pre-GP training and extra training post-general practice in areas like psychiatry and paediatrics.”See all stories on this subject

Drug treatment alleviates injury danger in ADHD children

The researchers note in The Lancet Psychiatry that the safety effect of drug treatment versus injuries continued to be robust in sensitivity analyses and in secondary analyses using a less conservative definition of drug treatment of a minimum of one …See all stories on this topic

New brain-training game might assist schizophrenia patients

It weaves a memory job into a story and rewards progress with extra gameplay activities. Teacher Barbara Sahakian from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, U.K. performed a four-week study using Wizard. Schizophrenia …See all stories on this topic

7 Brain Games Making You Smarter

They were developed as part of a brain-boosting lifestyle program called the Brainpower Strategy by by Cynthia Green, PhD, an assistant medical teacher in the department of psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medication and founder of its prominent Memory …See all stories on this topic