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Focussing the Mind with Adaptable and Customized Technology Focussing the Mind with Adaptable and Customized Technology Dr Adam Gazzaley FOCUSSING THE MIND WITH ADAPTABLE AND CUSTOMIZED TECHNOLOGY Attention disorders range from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder to multitasking difficulties due to aging. Regardless of the cause, such difficulties can have a negative impact on peoples’ lives. Dr Adam Gazzaley from the University of California San Francisco has carried out extensive research exploring how customized technology can be utilized to strengthen attention capabilities in individuals across the lifespan. His work has driven him to develop innovative technology companies and software as well as educate us on the benefits of experimental medicine. Attention Disorders Across the therapies to aid a patient to better Population understand their condition and how to deal with it. Available therapies may Our minds are amazingly complex and include cognitive behavioral therapy, are often engaged and productive. social skills training, psychoeducation However, in some cases, our attention and behavioral therapy. Some can be disrupted and difficult to researchers believe that diet could also maintain. One situation where play an important role in alleviating this occurs is in attention deficit ADHD and that taking supplements of hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Often omega-3 and omega-6 may be helpful. diagnosed between the ages of six and twelve years, ADHD usually presents Within the field of attention disorders, in children as being inattentive, but separate to ADHD, negative that he founded at the University of and hyperactive and impulsive. alterations to cognitive control are California San Francisco, as well as two Inattentiveness can mean a child is also common in elderly populations. other innovative technology companies easily distracted, forgetful, has difficulty As people age, many experience that he co-founded – Akili Interactive organizing themselves and tasks and a decreased ability to multitask and Sensync. has an apparent inability to listen and ignore distractions, and up carefully. When a child is hyperactive until recently, there has not been Neuroscape engages in six research and impulsive, they may be unable to a neurotherapeutic treatment for areas of neuroscience, including healthy sit still, constantly moving and fidgeting, this issue. Brain injury, depression, aging, video game training, non- excessively talking, interrupting dementia, and autism can all also invasive brain stimulation, cognitive conversations and have little sense of affect how a person’s neural pathways neuroscience, cognitive brain-computer danger. function. interface, and mobile assessments. The findings from studies in these topics Although ADHD is genetic and can run Covering many domains within are then applied to their educational in families, other factors such as being attention deficit, Dr Adam Gazzaley is a division which develops and assesses born prematurely and brain damage neuroscientist and entrepreneur who tools to help cognitive development may also contribute to its incidence. has conducted ground-breaking work in children and their clinical division Once it has been carefully diagnosed, into treating these types of disorders for real-life use as novel therapies for a ADHD may be treated with drugs to with technology. He works on his broad range of medical conditions. alleviate symptoms as well as various research in the Neuroscape center WWW.SCIENTIA.GLOBAL Improving Cognitive Control Through maintained 80% accuracy in the tasks. Dr Gazzaley’s interesting work reveals Technology Put simply, Dr Gazzaley measured each that adaptable and customized video person’s ability to multitask and he games can not only assess cognitive In 2013, Dr Gazzaley and his team found that this ability diminished in a abilities but also improve them. published a paper that was featured linear fashion as age decreased. NeuroRacer is a research tool developed on the cover of the prestigious at the Neuroscape center and Dr science journal Nature. The paper Each participant’s score was used to Gazzaley’s digital medicine company, described how they had been able to customize their subsequent games Akili, licensed the software so that they use a custom-made video game that so that they all played at a level of could create the clinical product called improved the attention abilities and difficulty adjusted for their ability. Some EndeavorRx. Excitingly, EndeavorRx memory of older adults. of the adults between the ages of 60 has been FDA cleared in the USA to be and 85 were given the task of playing given as a treatment for inattention in In this research, the team tested NeuroRacer in multitasking mode for children with ADHD. people aged 20–79, with around 30 three hours a week for four weeks. people representing each decade Meanwhile, others only played the Introducing Meditation to Young of life. To start, they all played a game in single-task mode and some People diagnostic version of a specifically did not play at all. At the end of the developed game called NeuroRacer, month, compared to the other groups, In a further study, Dr Gazzaley and his whereby they were given a sign task those playing the sign and drive version team investigated how another software and sometimes a driving task. The sign significantly improved their multitasking program could benefit attention span in task involved quickly responding to abilities on the game as well as other younger generations, this time inspired a new sign appearing but only when cognitive control functions like working by meditation. Young people are very they could see a green circle on their memory and sustained attention. The familiar with multitasking, thanks to the screen This measured their perceptual improvement in multitasking on the need to balance technology, education, discrimination ability. By including an game lasted an impressive six months work, and social lives, which are all additional ‘sign and drive’ task that after the experiment and demonstrate demanding on their attention. However, required them to also drive a car on that the prefrontal cognitive control boosting their sustained attention span a winding road, they also tested the system in the brain is flexible and can be is known to be a difficult task. participants’ concurrent visuomotor retrained, even in older age groups. tracking. An algorithm then determined During a six-week intervention, Dr the difficulty at which participants Gazzaley asked 59 adults aged 18–35 to use Neuroscape’s meditation app called WWW.SCIENTIA.GLOBAL anterior cingulate (dACC), which has an important role in brain development during adolescence. One of the key findings from this study was that closed-loop digital mediation can partially correct this issue. Improvement to dACC functional connectivity was correlated with the improvement of behavior in the children. Notably, meditation was beneficial for the sustained attention of the children in addition to lessening hyperactive behavior, which was still in effect one year after the intervention. Another MediTrain. This app uses traditional meditation techniques of positive behavioral outcome was enhanced performance at guided attention to the breath and stillness of the mind, but school. it also incorporates what is known as closed-loop software. This is where the software receives immediate performance Through this novel thinking and research, Dr Gazzaley provided feedback and continually adjusts a user’s experience to be more evidence that introducing meditation to children can personal to them. After each session, the participants self- have hugely beneficial impacts on their day-to-day lives by reported how well they kept their mind from wandering by helping them to develop their attention abilities. focusing on breathing and the app noted and adjusted their next session accordingly. Improving High-fidelity Memory in Older Adults using Virtual Reality The team found that after using the app for six weeks, the young adults displayed improved sustained attention and Early in 2021, Dr Gazzaley and his colleagues published a study working memory, which was linked to positive alterations in on the use of a virtual reality (VR) spatial wayfinding game key areas of cognitive processing and task performance in the (Labyrinth-VR) as a cognitive intervention for high-fidelity brain. memory declines in healthy older adults. High-fidelity memory refers to our ability to recall rich, detailed information from long Combining a practice that is thousands of years old with brand term memory on demand, and this involves an awareness and new technology is another pioneering way in which Dr Gazzaley selection of the most relevant information to effectively achieve has shown that attention can be trained and improved. that goal. Meditation for Teens with Mental Health Challenges A total of 48 older adults with typical cognitive performance for their age, were assigned to 12 hours of computer gameplay Building on his work in meditation, Dr Gazzaley investigated over four weeks using either the Labyrinth-VR or control how the exercise could be applied to adolescents who have game (not requiring recall of detailed information or route experienced difficulties in their upbringing. Adversity during navigation). Tests of memory were undertaken before the childhood, especially neglect, has a strong link to cognitive intervention and on completion. dysfunction, frequently resulting in ADHD in adolescence. They discovered that no previous studies had tried to produce
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