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Traumatic brain injury. Crushed pelvis. Seventy (70!) days in a coma. John Keller may have survived the horrific motorcycle accident that derailed his life, but his fight for life had just begun. After 14 surgeries and 344 days in the hospital, John Keller was released to go home-but life was anything but normal for the ...

An estimated 45 million kids in the U.S. participate in youth sports every year, and they’re starting younger than ever. Gymnastics classes are available for kids still in diapers and the SoccerTots® franchise caters to kids as young as 18 months. National Youth Sports Week this July 15-21 is designed to draw attention to the ...

11 Summer-Perfect, Family-Friendly, Brain-Boosting Games Our sweetest memories of summertime often include weekends at the lake,camping in the wilderness, or relaxing on the back porch. Bring your familytogether this summer with games! Want to keep your kids’ attentionskills high or improve them over the summer? Are you planning a long roadtrip and need something to ...

Slammin’ Summer Games For the Car, the Plane, or the Picnic Table Nationally renowned brain training experts Dr. Ken Gibson and Tanya Mitchell have created a free list to help parents shop for toys, games, and brain activities that will help improve learning skills in their home.(See the bottom of the page for a list ...

Turns out there’s a link between strength training and brain fitness. So much so that a recent study published in the Archives of Neurology discovered that people with more muscle strength cut their chances of developing Alzheimer’s in half! The study was conducted on a group of people with an average age of 80 years. ...

Workaholics work longer hours. That means their brains are active more hours of the day, right? That must mean they have sharper mental skills, right? Wrong. In fact, the opposite appears to be true. Research has linked longer work hours with weaker mental skills. In fact, one study of 2,214 middle-aged civil servants concluded that ...

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot point-blank in the head three months ago. This week, the Arizona congresswoman traveled to Cape Canaveral to watch her astronaut husband, Commander Mark Kelly, begin a 16-day mission aboard the space shuttle Endeavour. Rep. Giffords, who has been called “America’s best-known traumatic brain injury patient,” watched the launch of final ...

In a recent study, people who learned to juggle grew bigger brains. And if you think we’re clowning around, we’re not. German researchers took 24 non-jugglers and divided them into two groups. One group was asked to do nothing; the other group was asked to practice juggling for three months. The researchers took brain scans ...

With spring and summer wardrobes just around the corner, many of us are thinking about shedding a few pounds. Again. The truth is that, compared to keeping it off, losing weight is a piece of cake (unfortunate metaphor, we admit). In fact, 95 percent of dieters gain their weight back. Sometimes they gain even more ...

Did you know that, this year, the average American kid will spend 1,500 hours watching TV…and just 900 hours in school? Or that, this week, the average American kid will spend 1,680 minutes watching TV…and less than 40 minutes in meaningful conversation with his or her parents? All in all, the average American watches 4 ...