Brain Training Articles & News, Page 165

September is National ADHD Awareness Month, and in their ongoing quest for answers, researchers continue to discover new things about the common diagnosis, estimated to affect up to 16% of school aged children and close to 5% of adults. In the United States alone, roughly 8.8 million adults are thought to struggle with the condition. ...

Overactive, hyperactive, impulsive, rambunctious, wild – any of those describe your child? Whether he’s been diagnosed with ADHD or not, chances are you’ve probably already tried many, many ways to calm him enough so he can focus and learn. Have you tried this one? It’s from LearningRx Vice President of Research and Development Tanya Mitchell ...

Smart Mom’s Toy Box Nationally renowned brain training experts Ken Gibson and Tanya Mitchell have created a free list to help parents shop for toys, games, and brain activities that will help improve their children’s learning skills.(See the bottom of the page for a list of cognitive skills and their descriptions.)“Our hope is that parents ...

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 ...