Brain Training Articles & News

Eme came to LearningRx after telling her parents she wasn’t confident in her learning skills, especially math. She was losing confidence in herself and didn’t enjoy school or homework. Since completing a personal brain training program, Eme has much more confidence, her math skills have improved and even her swimming has benefited! She says she ...

When Elle was in third grade, her mom was told not to expect Elle to ever be able to read due to a learning disabilities. Tutoring ended up serving as an accommodation, with the tutors reading to Elle so she could avoid doing it herself. Finally, Elle’s mom enrolled her in personal brain training to ...

When Gavin’s mom started looking for help for her son’s learning struggles, she was disappointed to find that many programs simply offered tutoring—reteaching academic information—rather than working on strengthening fundamental brain skills. She was excited to find that LearningRx’s cognitive skills assessment confirmed her concerns about weak cognitive skills and could create a personal brain ...

As an adult, Wayne learned that a childhood brain injury may have weakened his cognitive skills, leaving him to struggle with reading his entire life. At 72, he went to LearningRx for a cognitive skills assessment, which showed that his brain skills were all very low compared to his peers. He enrolled in a personal ...

After a bike accident left Drew with a serious traumatic brain injury, a hospital stay, physical and occupational therapies helped addressed his physical injuries, but he needed help addressing his cognitive deficiencies. The Chattanooga Brain Injury Association suggested that he enroll in LearningRx personal brain training. With hard work, Drew was able to improve his ...

After years of homeschool, Sahara struggled to join the traditional school setting, especially when it came to studying and test taking. She also struggled with confidence when showing her 4H animals. Sahara’s parents wanted to find a personal brain training program that would target and work on specific skills to help her organization, studying and ...

When Carson came to LearningRx, he had been diagnosed with ADHD and was struggling with schoolwork. Rather than just relying on tutoring or pills to improve attention, Carson’s mom brought him in for a cognitive skills assessment. The results showed that attention wasn’t necessarily the root of the issue; Carson was struggling to process information, ...

Wesley is one of the hardest-working young men you’ll ever meet. The Raleigh high schooler loves all things agriculture and has always wanted to attend college at North Carolina State. Unfortunately, his struggles at school were holding him back, leading him to believe his dream was out of reach. He had difficulty completing schoolwork and ...

Our understanding of the brain increases with each passing year, thanks to advances in technology and medicine. We have new methods to study it, improve it and even fix it, but sometimes the big stories get hidden under other news. Here are some of the biggest brain breakthroughs of 2019 that we think are worthy ...

A team of researchers from Georgia State University wanted to know if capuchin and rhesus monkeys could outperform humans on tests of cognitive flexibility. The set up a variety of tests and found that the monkeys adapted to use a more efficient response sooner than humans. But why? Because monkeys have less working memory than ...