"braingame Brian": Toward an Executive Function Training Program with Game Elements for Children with ADHD and Cognitive Control Problems

Games for Health Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 44-49

  Prins, Pier J M ^a   Brink, Esther Ten ^b   Dovis, Sebastiaan ^a   Ponsioen, Albert ^b   Geurts, Hilde M ^a,c,d   De Vries, Marieke ^a   Van Der Oord, Saskia ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Lucertis   (Netherlands)

^c Center for Neuroscience   (Netherlands)

^d Dr Leo Kannerhuis ^*  (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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EID: 84902109637     PISSN: 2161783X     EISSN: 21617856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/g4h.2013.0004     Document Type: Article

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