NEEDED: Participants for the following Memory Enhancement Studies

Study 1: cognitive enhancement in adults with memory complaints

• Time commitment: 10 visits (12 hours total)

• Ages: 45 years old and over

• Payment: $200

• Contact: Dr. Haley: (512) 471-7926, neurolab.ut@gmail.com

  **Sponsored by the Darrell K Royal Research Fund for Alzheimer’s Disease and the National Institute for Aging

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