NEEDED: Participants in the following study

Study: enhancing cognition and improving symptoms of depression

• Time commitment: 12-week internet-based treatment program, along with questionnaires.

• Ages: 18-45

• To see if you are eligible, visit the following website: http://j.mp/1nD96T0

Evidence for efficacy and safety of laser stimulation

Healthy adults

Barrett & Gonzalez-Lima, 2013

• Improvement of emotional states
• Increased reaction time and sustained attention
• Shorter memory retrieval latency and increased task accuracy
• Increase of oxygenated hemoglobin concentration and a decrease of deoxygenated hemoglobin concentration in both cerebral hemispheres (Tian et al., 2016)

Depression patients

Disner, Beevers & Gonzalez-Lima, 2016

• Greater symptom improvement among participants whose attention was responsive to an attention focused cognitive intervention (i.e., attention was directed away from negative stimuli)

Future directions

• Parkinson’s Disease
• Bipolar Disorder
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Treatment resistant depression