Treating ADHD With Games

Mana Knight writes "The Escapist has an article called 'Gaming the Brain' about video games being used to treat ADHD. Quoting: 'One of the more promising therapies is neurofeedback, which involves continually monitoring patients' brainwaves. Subjects attempt to change their brainwaves to a set pattern and receive an auditory signal that tells them whether they were successful. With enough repetition, neurofeedback can rewire a person's brain. A study published in 2005 examines how patients diagnosed with ADHD can learn to better maintain their concentration through neurofeedback. Depending on how individuals respond to this type of treatment, it can even be used as a replacement for medication.'"

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Writing An Effective Troll In Our Web 2.0 World

[Anonymous Coward]

In the War against well formed and insightful posts that are on topic, there needs to be trolls and pieces of flamebait that must fight back. I have noticed that the quality of trolls have started going down, which has resulted in the following:

• Less of otherwise intelligent people responding to these trolls making themselves look stupid
• Less people getting innocently marked as Offtopic or Troll by being provoked by comments
• A decline in the amount of funny off-color joke material marked down

With a new type of web there needs to be a better quality of troll. I want to propose that we work in random chaos to achieve some sort of super troll. We need to not only counter-balance the well thought out comments of well adjusted members of society, but we need to go above and beyond. We need to make users of Slashdot, and especially paying subscribers, so sick of slashdot that they threaten to leave the site.

Now we have the site owners incompetence to our advantage. With the slow and nearly unusable state of their random javascript and their obnoxious flash ads, I think Commander Taco might be siding with us trolls for a change. We need to go to each and every news story and we need to piss a lot of people off. Here are some guidelines for our war against intelligence and common sense:

• A troll about African Americans (recommended to call them niggers) raping white men (Women can work too but white men rape is funnier)
• Attack a programmer by taunting and making fun of whatever language they may be using. On Slashdot it may be some variation of C or C++ so just attack and totally deconstruct their language as nothing more and dog turds in penis factory.
• Attacking Apple is always a great way to provoke Slashdotters who have invested in a Mac. Taunting should go into attacking the company, its users, or Steve Jobs. A jab about Starbucks is recommended
• Some sort of jab against Jews always works. Make sure to make work cited by Adolf Hitroll.
• The sky is usually the limit.

Borrowing and modifying old trolls are also acceptable as there is no copyright on these trolls. Honestly, what maladjusted basement dweller is going to take credit for half the shit on this site, troll or not. Make sure to get the point across by pasting multiple copies of your troll in each successive story.

Most importantly try to keep it original and offensive. If you can get at least one person angry or even to leave slashdot for a while you have done your job of dismantling the web one user at a time. Take for example, the slashdot user AlexPKeatonInDa. He probably hung himself because of all the troll chasing happening to him. I also consider KFG another victory as I believe the excessive trolls gave him terminal colon cancer. So now go out there and start writing and posting the most offensive noise your brain can shit out.