Novel Anxiety Treatment

"The cognitive training program has been designed by Dr. Sylvester. It is a simple computer game looking at some shapes and faces on a computer screen and pressing a button when a target shape appears.~This is the first study to use this exact computer training regimen for testing in its ability to reduce symptoms of anxiety in children with anxiety disorders. Each session of the computer game takes approximately 45-60 minutes and subjects complete 8 total sessions over one month. The computer game involves paying attention to parts of the screen while distracting square boxes appear at other locations. A target X appears at the location that participants are paying attention to and the subjects press a button when it appears."