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App-delivered videos of patients washing hands or touching dirty objects reduces OCD symptoms

By Laura Lovett 12:00 pm October 23, 2018

A recent Cambridge University-led study found evidence that a new app that lets patients watch a video of themselves washing their hands or touching a dirty object could be key to improving obsessive compulsive disorder symptoms in patients with contamination fears. In the study, published in Scientific Reports, OCD patients that got either of the two video interventions improved their scores on...

Peak, Cambridge University launch study-backed brain training game

By Jonah Comstock 10:18 am August 3, 2015

Peak, the London-based brain training game startup that raised $7 million in April, is launching a new game in its brain training app, and backing it up with a small peer-reviewed study published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. The game was actually developed for the study by researchers Barbara Sahakian and Tom Piercy at the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge...