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  • August 2008

    • Staying Sharp While Aging: It Has a Price

      Washington Post  |  Aug 17, 08 5:25 PM CDT

      Staying Sharp While Aging: It Has a Price

      (Newser) - Fighting the aging process is more about hard work than anti-wrinkle cream and hair dye, Jonah Lehrer writes in the Washington Post . The issue for most of us is not to dance like Madonna or swim like US Olympian Dara Torres; it's to remember names and places and find the car keys. And that requires exercise—for the brain. "The brain is a learning machine, and like all machines it needs to be continually maintained," one professor told Lehrer. More »

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      brain  • aging  • memory  • cognitive decline  • cognitive behavioral therapy

  • May 2008

    • 'Virtual Iraq' Helps Vets Face Stress

      New Yorker  |  May 18, 08 5:14 AM CDT

      'Virtual Iraq' Helps Vets Face Stress

      (Newser) - Therapists are plunging US war veterans back into the horrors of battle—as therapy. A virtual reality treatment is helping them cope with post-traumatic stress disorder by returning them to scarring events until their shock value wanes. "When the ground starts vibrating and you smell smoke and hear the AK-47 firing, it becomes very real," said one veteran. "When it was over, I’d go home and cry.” More »

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      veterans  • PTSD  • Iraq veterans  • Vietnam veteran  • therapy  • virtual reality  • Afghanistan veterans  • cognitive behavioral therapy

    • Software Brings Autism Therapy Into Homes

      Seattle Post-Intelligencer  |  May 1, 08 8:00 PM CDT

      Software Brings Autism Therapy Into Homes

      (Newser) - A Seattle software company is offering new hope to parents of autistic children who struggle to get, and afford, behavioral therapy, which can cost upward of $30,000 a year and isn't usually covered by insurance. Jigsaw Learning has created a game-like computer network, called TeachTown, that provides some aspects of the therapy, the Post-Intelligencer reports. More »

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      software  • autism  • startup  • treatment  • cognitive behavioral therapy

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