Tag Archives: Clinical trial

Listen up, doctors: Here’s how to talk to your patients

30/08/2014 · by · in post for doctors, psychiatry · Leave a comment

Introduction It is said that over 80% of diagnoses are made on history alone, a further 5-10% on examination and the remainder on investigation.[1] Whether this adage is true or not may be open to debate but it is clear that history and examination skills remain at the very core of clinical practice. This record […]

Cognitive Training May Bestow Long-Term Benefits for Seniors

13/06/2014 · by · in post for doctors · Leave a comment

Clinical and Research News March 20, 2014  DOI: 10.1176/appi.pn.2014.3b3 Joan Arehart-Treichel   Training elderly individuals in reasoning and speed-of-information processing tasks, but not memory, resulted in sustained or improved cognitive abilities a decade later.   A large multisite, randomized, controlled clinical trial has found that cognitive training can benefit seniors up to a decade after they’ve […]