Brain Training Articles & News, Page 259

Good concentration and focus are prescriptions for a successful life. Theyare also the result of active and successful attention skills. Strong,efficient attention skills enable us to concentrate intently on a problemor task while sorting out unimportant information and ignoring distractions.In an article by author Sam Horn, he suggests a helpful acronym for FOCUSthat offers 5 ...

The Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary online defines dyscalculia as, “impairment of mathematical ability due to an organic condition of the brain”. Talk about definition that leaves you cold! How many kids (and adults for that matter) struggle with math these days? While this ponderous definition isn’t the answer by itself, it may actually contain a key ...

Did you know that eating a potato can calm you down? Or that nutmeg and cinnamon can cause feelings of euphoria? Amino acids and other natural compounds are able to steer our mood swings. Nutrients can stimulate different regions of the brain and release chemicals that enhance brain activity or protect the brain from aging. ...

Think LearningRx is just for kids? Virginia Romero, from Shreveport, LA is 82 years old. She had a stroke and lost some of her abilities. She couldn’t remember where she lived or how old she was – so she called LearningRx in Shreveport to see if they could help. The following video is proof. She ...

Read this: We pegin our qrib eq a faziliar blace, a poqy like yours enq zine. Iq conqains a hunqraq qrillion calls qheq work qogaqhys py qasign. Having trouble reading this? Well, this gives you just a little taste of what it’s like to have a reading struggle. Now that school has started back up, ...

Scientists in England have done something that makes all the science fiction you’ve ever watched or read seem suddenly plausible. They’ve taken brain cells (neurons) from the brain of a rat, and put them in a bell jar. Creepy enough already, but just wait. They also made a little robot, with sensors that “speak” to ...

This fascinating video may challenge your ideas about intelligence. It’s called “Battle of the Brains” and explores the different types of intelligence that can be found in different people. There are 7 people in the challenge: a fighter pilot, a dramatist, a quantum physicist, an artist, a chess grandmaster, a musical prodigy and a Wall ...

Anytime a great new idea comes on the scene, it is inevitably followedby a herd of experts all claiming that they have the best resource foryou. But how can you tell which one is telling the truth? Brain training is no exception to this principle. It’s new, it’sexciting and it is yielding amazing results in ...

For years, moms have been making their kids take summertime piano lessons. Not surprisingly, moms know best: it turns out those piano lessons may have helped you more than you realize. Over the summer, students typically lose over 22% of what they learned the previous year. They call it “summer slide” and Kim Bellini, director ...

Last time, we posted a few puzzles to test your logic and reasoning skills. In this post, you can find out how you did! Below are the answers to the three quiz questions, and an explanation of how each answer is achieved. Logic and Reasoning Skills: Quiz Answers The first answer is found by visualizing ...