Older people may be able to boost their working memory with a new approach that couples online therapeutic games with a non-invasive brain stimulation technique.
Working memory is critical for people to function well in everyday life. This volatile form of memory holds and manipulates a finite amount of information over a short time interval, enabling people to interact with their environment in an effective and efficient manner. Working memory typically declines with age, with the decline in its capacity causing daily difficulties in people with Parkinson’s disease, dementia, and stroke.
Scientists and clinicians from the University of Birmingham, UK, Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, and the University of Trento, Italy have devised a new technology to mitigate this decline.
The investigators refer to the technology as cognitive needs and skills training, or COGNISANT,…
