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Here’s LearningRx Cedar Rapids’ Courtney Axline appearing onFox Channel 28 to offer tips on improving memory and training your brain: https://cbs2iowa.com/community/more-fun-in-the-morning/train-your-brain

LearningRx Charlottesville appeared on NBC Channel 29 to recommend that parents buy their kids games that work on memory and attention. https://www.nbc29.com/2019/12/13/charlottesville-area-company-promoting-healthy-brain-games/

Here’s David O’Reilly of LearningRx Columbus Dublin appearing on Channel 4 NBC to discuss age-related cognitive decline: https://www.nbc4i.com/daytime-columbus/brain-train-at-any-age/

Here’s Gina Cruz of LearningRx San Antonio NE appearing on News 4San Antonio to discuss brain fitness goals for 2020: https://news4sanantonio.com/sa-living/2020-brain-fitness-goals

The 2020 Brain Health Online Summit brings together 20 of the brightest minds in the brain health community—including Dr. Amy Moore of the Gibson Institute of Cognitive Research—throughout the month of March! Register now for free to hear leading healthcare professionals, brain injury survivors and advocates who will share real-world experience, strategies and clinical applications ...

Researchers from Norway have found that how much a child sleeps may accurately predict whether they will have psychiatric disorder later in life including ADHD. The study followed children who were 6, 8, 10 and 12. The link was statistically significant with boys compared to girls at ages 8 and 10. Find out more about ...

Next time your kid picks up a comic book, don’t be so quick to assume it’s a waste of time. Because comics use both images, words, sound effects, color, spatial layouts, panel composition and more, researchers say these multimodal cues can stimulate similar processes to the human brain mapping the world around it. Thanks to ...

Need some extra motivation to whittle that waistline? A study out of Iowa State University found that fluid intelligence tended to decrease with age in people with more abdominal fat. The study, which was done on thousands of middle-aged and older people, found that more body fat and less muscle mass negatively affected changes in ...

Go ahead and get your kid that noisy drum set! New research has found that drummers modify the way the left and right sides of their brain communicate. The scientists found that the “cabling” that crosses hemispheres is significantly different for musicians vs. their non-musician counterparts. Find out what the researchers found regarding drumming and ...

Our national Presidents Day Video Contest is underway, and your child or teen could win one of THREE Amazon gift cards valued at up to $100! Create a video reciting the last names of all U.S. Presidents by memory (complete with distractions & multitasking if you can!), and post on your social media account. Make sure you ...