We assessed their cognitive function before and after completing a working memory intervention using a comprehensive battery that included fluid and crystallized abilities, working memory and attention control, and we also obtained structural MRI images.
Our trial sets out to translate the exciting initial working memory intervention program findings to the Australian population in a large random sample of schools, within a current policy framework, and with analysis of real costs and benefits.
Furthermore, a study revealed that structural connectivity is improved in the white matter fibre tracts of the working memory system following a working memory training intervention [ 60].
Previous research suggests that an adaptive working memory training intervention (Cogmed) may improve working memory and other cognitive and behavioural domains, although further randomised controlled trials employing long-term outcomes are needed, and with populations at risk for working memory deficits, such as children born preterm.
We pose two specific researchable questions in this high-risk group: 1. Can a school-based computerised working memory program have a sustained impact on (a) literacy and numeracy and (b) working memory skills in intervention children, compared with controls who don't receive the program?
Prior to the Cogmed start-up session, the child will be randomised to either the adaptive working memory training program (intervention) group or the non-adaptive working memory training program (placebo) group in a 1 1 ratio.
There has been growing interest in using adaptive training interventions such as Cogmed-RM to increase the capacity of working memory (WM), but this intervention may not be optimally designed.
With the first study we hope to gain insight in the short and long-term effects of the working memory – and executive function intervention on neuropsychological functioning, academic performance, behaviour in class, behaviour problems and functioning in every day life.
The clinical implications for the role for the DRD2 SNP rs6277 has been associated to learning [ 57], reward sensitivity [ 58], substance abuse [ 59– 61], nicotine modulation of working memory [ 62], pharmacological interventions [ 63, 64] as well as in schizophrenia [ 24, 65, 66].
To investigate the effectiveness of a mindfulness meditation intervention on working memory capacity (WMC) in adolescents via a randomized controlled trial comparing mindfulness meditation to hatha yoga and a waitlist control group.
This study is part of a larger research project called "Intervention in working memory and specific academic skills with students with attention deficit disorder/hyperactivity," financially supported by the Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Program (ProDAH) of the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA).
