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Video Game-Like Programs Could Treat Schizophrenia
derGoldstein writes "Discovery is pointing to an ongoing study by Sophia Vinogradov, professor of psychiatry at UC-San Francisco, who is 'trying to determine whether computer-based cognitive remediation, a type of brain training through video game-like programs, is effective for treating schizophrenia. ... In a handful of blinded and randomized trials with computer-based training, Vinogradov has reported cognitive improvements for both recently diagnosed patients and those living with the disorder for several years. So far, treatment — such as 50 hours of training over a 10-week period — has shown great promise for patients when compared to control groups.'"
Yes, the evil Discovery Network. Convincing the world that the scientific method is "valid" since 1995.
A blog post about mental illness and startups. In the case of some mental illnesses/conditions, behaviorism can play a bigger part than the chemistry. It's an absurdly difficult subject to research, and progress is slow, but mental illness is up there with obesity on the watch-list of developed-world epidemics.
Entomologically speaking, the spider is not a bug, it's a feature.
Hypothesis: Americans would watch a program about logging.
Prediction: They will.
Experiment: (see Discovery Channel lineup)
Outcome: Americans will watch a program about logging. There exist several.
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And what does National Geographic have to do with "Toughest Prisons"? They need to fill slots and they need to fill them with stuff at least some people will watch. It doesn't delegitimize other shows on the channel/s, and certainly not the organizations as a whole.
Entomologically speaking, the spider is not a bug, it's a feature.
To everyone else: Do NOT click on this link.
which is totally what she said
Neuroplasticity-Based Cognitive Training in Schizophrenia
I don't know, I think it's a valid expression of the GP's Mental Illness ;)
I'm a firm atheist, but I don't think that the analogy to mental illness is entirely valid. Religion is more about extreme conditioning. If you have it hammered into you from an early age, in a severe manner, the mind will cling to it just as it does to physiological urges. Convincing people that theistic religion is a "delusion" only works in an environment where some freedoms are allowed -- the freedom to think for yourself, and the freedom to question anything you want to. In a fundamentalist environment, this will get you (at best) in prison.
Many people, after spending enough time in such an extreme environment, are beyond help. They're neurologically "fused" with their beliefs.
Entomologically speaking, the spider is not a bug, it's a feature.
If using the proper probability value for such a small, and inadequate, sample there are no significant effects whatsoever.
The cognition training given only has video-game like rewards, there is nothing video game about it. Confounding factors which they did not mention are that the test group was exposed to one type of computer training with reduced and tightly controled stimuli while the control group played 16 different computer games with lots of stimuli and played several games every day. Computer time was only 1 hour a day. Any differences in their insignificant findings could be explained by rewarding focus.
Then again this probably just one of those papers written up to get more funding judging by their misleading use of statistics and their optimistic wording of the possible positive results if they just had more time and subjects as well as the statement that what is important is improving every day functioning and not scores on tests, n.b., both the test group and the control group showed improved daily functioning.
I could give a more detailed analysis of how wrong this all is but this is painful enough on my N900, anybody have a laptop/tablet they're giving away? How about a motherboard for a tx2500? A job reviewing grant submissions?
Don't complain about syntax, grammar, or spelling. There is no.hell like input on android.
it doesnt matter if they cured cancer tomorrow. if it cost more than a few thousand dollars, most of the people on this planet could never afford it.
without health insurance, all of these wonderful medical breakthroughs dont mean anything.
I'd watch a good program on logging techniques and good practice myself. Like what you do when the disk is full and you can't log that.
Every end has half a stick.
Well put.
Every end has half a stick.