In 2014, two groups of scientists published open letters on the efficacy of brain-training
interventions, or “brain games,” for improving cognition. The first letter, a consensus …

The primary objective of this review article is to summarize how the neuroscience of brain
plasticity, exploiting new findings in fundamental, integrative and cognitive neuroscience, is …

We systematically mistreat psychological phenomena, both logically and clinically. This
article explores three contentions: that the dominant discourse in modern cognitive, affective …

The ability to detect and respond to errors is critical to successful adaptation to a changing
environment. The error-related negativity (ERN), an event-related potential (ERP) …

Objective: Cognitive deficits that characterize schizophrenia are present in the prodrome,
worsen with illness onset, and predict functional outcome. Cognitive dysfunction is thus a …

Emotion-cognition and motivation-cognition relationships and related brain mechanisms are
receiving increasing attention in the clinical research literature as a means of understanding …

Objective To investigate the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) applied
over the prefrontal cortex on the improvement of verbal, visuospatial working memory and …

Endophenotypes for psychopathology have been conceived as latent, unobserved, but
measureable manifestations of phenomena that causally connect genetic liability to clinical …

Language and thought dysfunction are central to the schizophrenia syndrome. They are
evident in the major symptoms of psychosis itself, particularly as disorganized language …

Computerized cognitive training is gaining empirical support for use in the treatment of
schizophrenia (SZ). Although cognitive training is efficacious for SZ at a group level when …