June 15th is National Brain Training Day!

June 15th is National Brain Training Day! On June 1st, LearningRx, thecountry’s leading personal brain training company declared June15th National Brain Training Day. The day was declared with two purposesin mind. First, to dispel myths around cognitive skills training. Secondly,to raise awareness of the phenomenal gains the right type of brain trainingcan bring.

“LearningRx brain training can dramatically improve learning andreading skills for almost anyone,” says LearningRx Vice Presidentof Research and Development Tanya Mitchell. “Every day we see ourbrain training bring measurable, dramatic gains that result in faster,more efficient thinking. Our graduates consistently enjoy better readingskills, improved grades and increased confidence and self-esteem.”

National Brain Training Day: Come See What We Do

LearningRx centers nationwide invite the public to watch a brain trainingsession on this year's National Brain Training Day, or come into acenter to try some brain training techniques. “Our students lovecoming to LearningRx because our exercises are game-like and fun and nothinglike tutoring or school work,” says Mitchell. “They oftensay it’s exciting because they can actually feel themselves gettingsmarter. We invite everyone to come check it out.”

LearningRx founder Dr. Ken Gibson says it’s important for peopleto realize that not all mental exercise is brain training. He says a recentstudy showed no improvement in mental fitness when people used onlinebrain activities for ten minutes a day, three times a week over a six-weekperiod, because that routine lacked the intensity to make a difference.

“Brain training is intense, focused and demanding, with exercisesthat continue to push the brain to do more challenging activities, inshorter times, with more distractions and additional tasks,” saysDr. Gibson. “It’s a lot like physical training — intensityis key. With physical training, a ten-minute stroll three times a weekisn’t going to result in measurable improvement in physical fitness.But a focused, increasingly tough, one-hour workout six times a week witha personal trainer will quickly result in vast improvement. The same holdstrue for brain training, which is why our intense one-on-one personalbrain training programs bring such significant results.”

National Brain Training Day: Incredible Gains

Dr. Gibson hopes that the inception of a national brain training day willraise awareness of the incredible gains and brilliant life changes thatbrain training produces in its students. According to Dr. Gibson, nationwidemore than 25,000 students have gone through LearningRx brain training.Graduates typically see average gains of between 20 to 49 percentile pointsacross nine essential cognitive learning areas. To put that in perspective,if a student is functioning 25th from the bottom in a class of 100 students,and averages a 40 percentile gain, that means he would pass 40 other studentsand be functioning 35th from the top after just a few months of brain training.