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Research paper thumbnail of Brain Exercises for Synaptic Plasticity (BEST Study): A randomized, placebo-controlled cognitive intervention trial for brain health in older adults (P6.081)

Research paper thumbnail of Exploring the Link Between Brain Waves and Sleep Patterns with Deep Learning Manifold Alignment

Lecture notes in networks and systems, Dec 31, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Real‐time Memory‐related Neurofeedback Training Improves Intrinsic Brain Oscillations in Older Adults

Alzheimer's & Dementia, Nov 30, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Development and Assessment of a Friendly Robot to Ease Dementia

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Update on oral contraceptive pills

PubMed, Nov 1, 1999

Oral contraceptive pills are widely used and are generally safe and effective for many women. The... more Oral contraceptive pills are widely used and are generally safe and effective for many women. The World Health Organization has developed a risk classification system to help physicians advise patients about the safety of oral contraceptive pills. The choice of pill formulation is influenced by clinical considerations. By choosing appropriately from the available pill formulations, family physicians can minimize negative side effects and maximize noncontraceptive benefits for their patients. Additional monitoring and follow-up are necessary in special populations, such as women over 35 years of age, smokers, perimenopausal women and adolescents. Third-generation progestins are additional options for achieving noncontraceptive benefits, but their use has raised new questions about thrombogenesis. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has labeled emergency postcoital contraception for use following unprotected coitus. Oral contraceptive pills are associated with few clinically significant drug interactions, although consideration of interactions remains important.

Research paper thumbnail of Sharpening Working Memory With Real-Time Electrophysiological Brain Signals: Which Neurofeedback Paradigms Work?

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, Mar 28, 2022

Growing evidence supports the idea that the ultimate biofeedback is to reward sensory pleasure (e... more Growing evidence supports the idea that the ultimate biofeedback is to reward sensory pleasure (e.g., enhanced visual clarity) in real-time to neural circuits that are associated with a desired performance, such as excellent memory retrieval. Neurofeedback is biofeedback that uses real-time sensory reward to brain activity associated with a certain performance (e.g., accurate and fast recall). Working memory is a key component of human intelligence. The challenges are in our current limited understanding of neurocognitive dysfunctions as well as in technical difficulties for closed-loop feedback in true real-time. Here we review recent advancements of real time neurofeedback to improve memory training in healthy young and older adults. With new advancements in neuromarkers of specific neurophysiological functions, neurofeedback training should be better targeted beyond a single frequency approach to include frequency interactions and event-related potentials. Our review confirms the positive trend that neurofeedback training mostly works to improve memory and cognition to some extent in most studies. Yet, the training typically takes multiple weeks with 2-3 sessions per week. We review various neurofeedback reward strategies and outcome measures. A well-known issue in such training is that some people simply do not respond to neurofeedback. Thus, we also review the literature of individual differences in psychological factors e.g., placebo effects and so-called "BCI illiteracy" (Brain Computer Interface illiteracy). We recommend the use of Neural modulation sensitivity or BCI insensitivity in the neurofeedback literature. Future directions include much needed research in mild cognitive impairment, in non-Alzheimer's dementia populations, and neurofeedback using EEG features during resting and sleep for memory enhancement and as sensitive outcome measures.

Research paper thumbnail of Social Robots to Support Assisted Living for Persons with Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Social Robots to Support Assisted Living for Persons with Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Development and Assessment of a Friendly Robot to Ease Dementia

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Sharpening Working Memory With Real-Time Electrophysiological Brain Signals: Which Neurofeedback Paradigms Work?

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Growing evidence supports the idea that the ultimate biofeedback is to reward sensory pleasure (e... more Growing evidence supports the idea that the ultimate biofeedback is to reward sensory pleasure (e.g., enhanced visual clarity) in real-time to neural circuits that are associated with a desired performance, such as excellent memory retrieval. Neurofeedback is biofeedback that uses real-time sensory reward to brain activity associated with a certain performance (e.g., accurate and fast recall). Working memory is a key component of human intelligence. The challenges are in our current limited understanding of neurocognitive dysfunctions as well as in technical difficulties for closed-loop feedback in true real-time. Here we review recent advancements of real time neurofeedback to improve memory training in healthy young and older adults. With new advancements in neuromarkers of specific neurophysiological functions, neurofeedback training should be better targeted beyond a single frequency approach to include frequency interactions and event-related potentials. Our review confirms the...

Research paper thumbnail of Update on oral contraceptive pills

American family physician, 1999

Oral contraceptive pills are widely used and are generally safe and effective for many women. The... more Oral contraceptive pills are widely used and are generally safe and effective for many women. The World Health Organization has developed a risk classification system to help physicians advise patients about the safety of oral contraceptive pills. The choice of pill formulation is influenced by clinical considerations. By choosing appropriately from the available pill formulations, family physicians can minimize negative side effects and maximize noncontraceptive benefits for their patients. Additional monitoring and follow-up are necessary in special populations, such as women over 35 years of age, smokers, perimenopausal women and adolescents. Third-generation progestins are additional options for achieving noncontraceptive benefits, but their use has raised new questions about thrombogenesis. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has labeled emergency postcoital contraception for use following unprotected coitus. Oral contraceptive pills are associated with few clinically signifi...

Research paper thumbnail of Brain Exercises for Synaptic Plasticity (BEST Study): A randomized, placebo-controlled cognitive intervention trial for brain health in older adults (P6.081)

Research paper thumbnail of Exploring the Link Between Brain Waves and Sleep Patterns with Deep Learning Manifold Alignment

Lecture notes in networks and systems, Dec 31, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Real‐time Memory‐related Neurofeedback Training Improves Intrinsic Brain Oscillations in Older Adults

Alzheimer's & Dementia, Nov 30, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Development and Assessment of a Friendly Robot to Ease Dementia

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Update on oral contraceptive pills

PubMed, Nov 1, 1999

Oral contraceptive pills are widely used and are generally safe and effective for many women. The... more Oral contraceptive pills are widely used and are generally safe and effective for many women. The World Health Organization has developed a risk classification system to help physicians advise patients about the safety of oral contraceptive pills. The choice of pill formulation is influenced by clinical considerations. By choosing appropriately from the available pill formulations, family physicians can minimize negative side effects and maximize noncontraceptive benefits for their patients. Additional monitoring and follow-up are necessary in special populations, such as women over 35 years of age, smokers, perimenopausal women and adolescents. Third-generation progestins are additional options for achieving noncontraceptive benefits, but their use has raised new questions about thrombogenesis. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has labeled emergency postcoital contraception for use following unprotected coitus. Oral contraceptive pills are associated with few clinically significant drug interactions, although consideration of interactions remains important.

Research paper thumbnail of Sharpening Working Memory With Real-Time Electrophysiological Brain Signals: Which Neurofeedback Paradigms Work?

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, Mar 28, 2022

Growing evidence supports the idea that the ultimate biofeedback is to reward sensory pleasure (e... more Growing evidence supports the idea that the ultimate biofeedback is to reward sensory pleasure (e.g., enhanced visual clarity) in real-time to neural circuits that are associated with a desired performance, such as excellent memory retrieval. Neurofeedback is biofeedback that uses real-time sensory reward to brain activity associated with a certain performance (e.g., accurate and fast recall). Working memory is a key component of human intelligence. The challenges are in our current limited understanding of neurocognitive dysfunctions as well as in technical difficulties for closed-loop feedback in true real-time. Here we review recent advancements of real time neurofeedback to improve memory training in healthy young and older adults. With new advancements in neuromarkers of specific neurophysiological functions, neurofeedback training should be better targeted beyond a single frequency approach to include frequency interactions and event-related potentials. Our review confirms the positive trend that neurofeedback training mostly works to improve memory and cognition to some extent in most studies. Yet, the training typically takes multiple weeks with 2-3 sessions per week. We review various neurofeedback reward strategies and outcome measures. A well-known issue in such training is that some people simply do not respond to neurofeedback. Thus, we also review the literature of individual differences in psychological factors e.g., placebo effects and so-called "BCI illiteracy" (Brain Computer Interface illiteracy). We recommend the use of Neural modulation sensitivity or BCI insensitivity in the neurofeedback literature. Future directions include much needed research in mild cognitive impairment, in non-Alzheimer's dementia populations, and neurofeedback using EEG features during resting and sleep for memory enhancement and as sensitive outcome measures.

Research paper thumbnail of Social Robots to Support Assisted Living for Persons with Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Social Robots to Support Assisted Living for Persons with Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Development and Assessment of a Friendly Robot to Ease Dementia

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Sharpening Working Memory With Real-Time Electrophysiological Brain Signals: Which Neurofeedback Paradigms Work?

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Growing evidence supports the idea that the ultimate biofeedback is to reward sensory pleasure (e... more Growing evidence supports the idea that the ultimate biofeedback is to reward sensory pleasure (e.g., enhanced visual clarity) in real-time to neural circuits that are associated with a desired performance, such as excellent memory retrieval. Neurofeedback is biofeedback that uses real-time sensory reward to brain activity associated with a certain performance (e.g., accurate and fast recall). Working memory is a key component of human intelligence. The challenges are in our current limited understanding of neurocognitive dysfunctions as well as in technical difficulties for closed-loop feedback in true real-time. Here we review recent advancements of real time neurofeedback to improve memory training in healthy young and older adults. With new advancements in neuromarkers of specific neurophysiological functions, neurofeedback training should be better targeted beyond a single frequency approach to include frequency interactions and event-related potentials. Our review confirms the...

Research paper thumbnail of Update on oral contraceptive pills

American family physician, 1999

Oral contraceptive pills are widely used and are generally safe and effective for many women. The... more Oral contraceptive pills are widely used and are generally safe and effective for many women. The World Health Organization has developed a risk classification system to help physicians advise patients about the safety of oral contraceptive pills. The choice of pill formulation is influenced by clinical considerations. By choosing appropriately from the available pill formulations, family physicians can minimize negative side effects and maximize noncontraceptive benefits for their patients. Additional monitoring and follow-up are necessary in special populations, such as women over 35 years of age, smokers, perimenopausal women and adolescents. Third-generation progestins are additional options for achieving noncontraceptive benefits, but their use has raised new questions about thrombogenesis. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has labeled emergency postcoital contraception for use following unprotected coitus. Oral contraceptive pills are associated with few clinically signifi...