Major U.S. Clinics Partner with Cogmed to Provide Computerized Training to Kids, Adults with Attention Problems
“aboutworkingmemory.org” provides information, interactive video exercise that challenges memory and attention capacity
Naperville, Ill., Nov. 5, 2007 – Cogmed - www.cogmed.com - a developer of working memory training software for children and adults with attention deficits, today announced partnerships with four major Midwestern clinics—St. John’s Mercy Hospital in St. Louis; Centegra Health System in McHenry County, Ill.; Affinity Health System in Menasha, Wis.; and Madison Center in South Bend, Ind.
These partnerships add to a growing network of more than 50 U.S. clinics that are offering Cogmed’s program to train and improve working memory—a key cognitive function that allows individuals to hold information “online” for short periods of time. Working memory is necessary for countless daily tasks including problem solving, impulse control and focusing attention.
The new Cogmed partners represent significant healthcare providers in the Midwest:
• St. John’s Mercy Children’s Hospital operates as a “hospital-within-a-hospital” and is located within St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, a member of the Sisters of Mercy Health System. It serves the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan community and provides specialized, child-centered services, including the Child Development Center, a multidisciplinary assessment and treatment center for children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders.
• Centegra Health System serves the greater McHenry County region of northern Illinois with three hospitals, more than 30 locations and 450 Physicians. Centegra is recognized for behavioral health services as well as cardiac care, cancer care, rehabilitation services and occupational health.
• Affinity Health System serves the healthcare needs of the Menasha, Appleton, Oshkosh and Chilton communities in eastern Wisconsin. Affinity boasts more than 200 physicians at its three hospitals and 23 clinics.
• Madison Center in South Bend, Ind. provides a full continuum of behavioral healthcare services to the communities surrounding St. Joseph, Elkhart, LaPorte, Marshall, and Porter Counties in northern Indiana.
“Healthcare clinicians are increasingly turning to working memory training to improve attention and executive function,” said Jonas Jendi, CEO of Cogmed. “Having seen such strong results with our specialist partners, Cogmed is proud to be partnering with major clinics and hospitals in the Midwest to allow greater numbers of children and adults with attention problems to overcome these debilitating issues.”
Cogmed Working Memory Training is a home-based computerized program backed by peer-reviewed studies published in leading neuroscience journals, including more than 10 studies conducted to date or in progress in Europe and the United States.
About Cogmed
Cogmed has made a breakthrough discovery that individuals can train and improve their working memory, a key function of the brain that allows individuals to store information for brief periods of time. Cogmed Working Memory Training helps people with attention deficits improve focus, impulse control and complex problem solving. Through a combination of software-based working memory exercises and personal coaching, participants engage in a challenging five-week program using an Internet-connected computer at home. More than 80 percent of those who have completed Cogmed’s rigorous and rewarding training have demonstrated tangible and lasting improvements. Cogmed’s program has been validated by high-impact research in controlled scientific studies at the Karolinska Institute, a world-renowned medical university based in Stockholm, Sweden. A leader in the emerging field of neurotechnology, Cogmed was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Naperville, Ill. Cogmed’s services are provided by a growing network of more than 50 practices around the U.S.
