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Gina Cruz of LearningRx San Antonio NE appeared on Channel 4 to discussgifts you can give your children without buying more “stuff.” https://news4sanantonio.com/sa-living/gifts-for-kids-you-cant-buy-in-a-store

Here’s a piece from LearningRx about the biggest brain-related storiesof 2019 that appeared on News Channel 9: https://www.news9.com/story/41543090/LearningRx-reviews-the-biggest-brain-related-stories-of-2019

This article about the biggest brain-related stories of 2019, written byLearningRx, was featured on WRCBtv’s website: https://www.wrcbtv.com/story/41543090/LearningRx-reviews-the-biggest-brain-related-stories-of-2019

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 ...

Learning had always been fun for Alex when it came to things he loved, but when it came to things he thought were “boring”, the learning became harder and more frustrating. After overcoming a slower educational start due to environmental factors, Alex played catch up for most of his first few years of elementary school. ...

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 ...

One of the most common assumptions as to why a child struggles is that he is not trying as hard as he should be. When I meet with families a common assumption is, “My child can do it, he just needs apply himself or put forth more effort.” That can be true, but there are ...

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 ...