Putting Brain Training to the Test in the Workplace: A Randomized, Blinded, Multisite, Active-Controlled Trial

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Borness, Catherine ^a,b,c   Proudfoot, Judith ^a   Crawford, John ^a   Valenzuela, Michael ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUSTRALIA; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL STRESS; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; OFFICE WORKER; PRODUCTIVITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF REPORT; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; VIDEORECORDING; VISUOSPATIAL ABILITY; WHITE COLLAR WORKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKPLACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875539706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059982     Document Type: Article

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