Cognitive Neuroscience: Clinical Cognitive Science

Post date: Nov 1, 2018 9:12:18 PM

We have been using functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) neuroimaging, in conjunction with cognitive tasks that assess verbal and spatial working memory, visual search, automatic processes and others to understand cognitive and neurophysiological effects of disorders like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in kids. fNIRS is a mobile neuroimaging technology that is relatively robust to motion, which makes it ideal for use in operational environments and under conditions where movement is needed. For example, children with ADHD show cognitive performance benefits when they are allowed to move, which is a problem for other brain imaging methods (e.g., fMRI).