March 19, 2010 – The Examiner -
Inside NeuroRehabilitation’s current issue you will see CogniFit’s independent study regarding their new training software, Personal Coach, and the amazing results of it’s having helped multiple sclerosis (MS) patients with their cognitive problems.
Functions like verbal fluency, concept formation, abstract reasoning, monitoring and planning are all most times affected by the MS, but memory is the one area that is the most problematic all across the board. The Researchers involved in the study think their new software, having been made to help target the problem area that needs the most training for the individual, is what has led to the improvements seen in the different types of memory.
The study was done with patients who used the Personal Coach training software for 20-30 minutes, three times a week for 12 weeks and those that did not use it. The training group had a general memory increase of 20%, a visual working memory increase of 20% and a verbal-auditory working memory increase of 20% over the control group as well.
Analysis of the data also shows the patients having improvements, over those in the control group, in speed of object recall at 10%, visuo-motor attention at 10%, focused attention at 8%, naming speed at 9% and visual spatial working memory at 8%. Linguistic short-term and working memory had also improved by 14% and 16% respectively.
CogniFit’s Personal Coach was made to meet the specific needs of individuals by having the user follow a baseline assessment in the form of exercises designed to train the brain which continually adjusts to the level of the user. This has resulted in people being challenged enough as to improve their abilities, but not get frustrated enough at the level of difficulty and quit. Read story.
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