by braintrain on May 20, 2012
Thinking Skills: Make 'em Faster
The benefit of good thinking skills: cognitive functioning are many:
- Attention and concentration improve
- Planning and organization make daily living 'click'
- Balance and coordination smooth
- Language skills become fluent
- Motor abilities reach peak performance
A very highly researched educational and sports training tool, the Interactive Metronome, now is able to deliver it's powerful programs in a person own home environment.
The IM-Home is fun, interactive and challenging. The IM Training delivers measurable results during each session. In3 weeks or about 12 to 14 one-hour session, a person can rewire their brain's networks. This gain increases the rate of transmission of information along the neural pathways.
Fluency in movement, motor planning, behavioral control over impulsivity, ability to concentrate and focus: ALL are positive results of this IM training.
IM-Home is based on the principles of the Interactive Metronome, which has been used for years to help adults, children, elite athletes and as well as with individuals with neurological challenges: to improve neurological and motor functioning.
Individuals with ADD/AHDH as well as people who seek improvements in accuracy and focus will find gains.
For more information: contact Diane: info@brain-train.biz or use a contact form on this web site.
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by braintrain on May 15, 2012
Collegiate Sports Use Interactive Metronome for Brain Training
Collegiate Sports Programs use the Interactive Metronome program to improve players accuracy and readiness.
Players report gains in situational awareness: opponents posture, pre-snap, facial cue awareness and wider observation acuities.
Notre Dame Football Trains with Interactive Metronome View an ESPN Half-time GAME DAY feature to see and hear the Nortre Dame coach and players responses to their experiences with the Im technology.
Players report gains in:
- Visual awareness
- Sharpened ability to react
- Smoother coordination of movements
- Situational awareness
Measurable gains in movement sequencing and motor planning are documented in each session of the IM training protocols.
Any skill that can be measured can be improved.
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by braintrain on May 14, 2012
Fast Thinking: efficient and effective
Everyone wants to be able to have fast thinking:
- to be on-the-ball,
- to be able to move with a ball with precision,
- to be able to recall information: in business and in school settings,
- fast thinking is the KEY!
Cognitive psychologists theorize that the faster we are able to process information (or think), the more intelligent we are, and the more readily we can learn and demonstrate what we’ve learned. There are many recent studies that support this view, including this one published in the journal Intelligence. Each individual is born with a certain amount of resources for attending to and processing information. How well a person allocates those resources appears to be a major factor in determining intelligence. Taub et al (2007) demonstrated that Interactive Metronome (IM) training has a significant positive effect on reading achievement (affecting 4 of 5 critical pre-reading skills) in elementary school students. They proposed that IM training was primarily improving “processing [thinking] speed,” which in turn improved the students’ ability to allocate resources for attending and holding information in working memory … all essential for fluent reading.
Behavior controls are improved including impulsivity and aggressiveness.
Now you can gain IM training in your own home with IM-HOME units. In 3 weeks your processing speeds will be decreased.
Research citations for your further education:
Ben-Shakhar, G. and Sheffer, L. (2001). The relationship between the ability to divide attention and standard
measures of general cognitive abilities. Intelligence, 29: 293-306.
Taub. G., McGrew, K.S., and Keith, T.Z. (2007). Improvement in interval timing tracking and effects on reading
achievement. Psychology in the Schools, 44(8), 849-863.
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by braintrain on May 5, 2012
Brain Exercises Build Timing Precision
Brain exercises, computer-based, give measurable training to timing for gains in brain function.
Using a state of the art tool that elite athletes and top academic students find powerful, Brain Train Cleveland is offering:
- Summer Session in their Westlake, Ohio offices
- Remote training via Interactive Metronome's IM Home units
- Skype facilitated virtual monitoring of training patterns
With the ease of distance training, you or family member can acquire increases in their brain's ability to manage information.
Brain exercises, done with a customized program will benefit the trainee with:
- Faster thinking: processing
- Memory gains: all age groups
- Behavior regulation
Email or call to set-up an complementary Timing Survey and then let Interactive Metronome Training set your path to proficiency in processing information with your BRAIN! In 3 weeks permanent changes maximize your BRAIN!
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by braintrain on April 6, 2012
Brain Imaging Clarifies Concepts
Brain Imagery illustrates Brain Design and architecture. Anatomical landmarks are demonstrated.
With the advancement in brain imaging, a clear concept of the 3D grid structure clarifies it's architecture.
Details are published in this article.
With an MRI performed at the Martinos Medical Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, a simple 3 dimensional grid-like structure is able to give us a better understanding to the brain.
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by braintrain on April 5, 2012
IS ADD ADHD a health challenge for someone in your family?
For individuals with an ADD and ADHD diagnosis, the Interactive Metronome therapy and training programs are demonstrating gains for student the health and cognitive functioning issue identified as Attention Deficient Disorder of Attention Disorder Hyperactive Disorder.
In this recently broadcasted health feature in California, those students who have had attention and focus issue because of ADD and ADHD diagnosis, speak to interviewers in testimony to the gains they have made in school and daily living abilities. You might gain a better
Academic gains in reading have been assessed to show improvements of one to two grade levels. Processing speed increases for thinking have been demonstrated gains of 15% to 30% in math skills.
There is a video available on this web site for your review to actually see the process IM training provides for the trainees.
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by braintrain on April 2, 2012
Interactive Metronome Programs Offer Learning for Autism Issue
As the world continues to increase it's awareness of the occurrences and signs of Autism, positive programs that provide gains for the individuals must deal with their complex-bio-neurological challenges that result from Autism, include the computer-based training protocol called the Interactive Metronome.
Over the course of their therapy sessions, trainer using IM learn to:
• Focus and attend for longer periods of time
• Increase physical endurance and stamina
• Filter out internal and external distractions
• Improve fine and gross motor function
• Improve their ability to monitor mental and physical actions as they are occurring
• Progressively improve performance.
A key element to consider when evaluating this modality, is it's non-invasive nature.
In the search for engagement tools that promote responsiveness:
- For gains in social cueing observations and application.
- For communicative ease and fluency.
- For reduction in repetitive and restrictive behaviors.
Brain Train Cleveland reminds readers that locating and selecting a Interactive Metronome Certified Provider may offer positive learning for the individual you seek to assist.
If you are in northeast Ohio, call us to discuss the services that might open some doors for your loved one.
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by braintrain on March 29, 2012
Brain Training The Perfect SPRING BREAK
Try brain training to bring your brain to efficient functioning, by enrolling in the 3 week Brain Training sessions at Brain Train Cleveland. We all want to keep strong brain functions throughout our lives.
With the Interactive Metronome programs, any age person will improve their thinking in 3 weeks and permanently!
Each session of IM training produces data that show the strength of the training's power. Each trainee will be challenged based on their previous session's achievement rate.
Research has shown that professional athletes and musicians display LOW millisecond timing scores.
Get your won timing down to highly functional ranges and experience the confidence of strong memory recall and efficient organizational behavior:
- In your career efforts
- In your personal life
- In your management of daily task
- In your physical pursuits
- In your artistic skills
- In your learning efforts
Call (440) 835-5071 or Contact US to set an appointment for a FREE 20 minute Timing Survey!
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by braintrain on March 9, 2012
Parent and First Grader Offer Their Experiences with IM Training
A six year old first grader in Mississippi and his parent speak with an interviewer and explain their experiences with training with the Interactive Metronome.
This child has been experiencing difficulty in focusing and accomplishing tasks in school as well as having daily life activity problems.
As you will hear in this interview, the IM process enables gains in concentration and ability to self-regulate at home and school.
The mother expressed her happiness in watching her son prepare his own breakfast cereal. That independence gave both the parent and the child increases in self-esteem.
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by braintrain on March 3, 2012
Brain Train Cleveland Offers Golf Training
BRAIN-TRAIN Cleveland offers Golfers
~The Groove GOLF Training Regimen~
GOLF TRAINING: A Driving Range for the Brain
Golfers will perform a series of exercises which are designed to improve mind-body timing. Using The Groove application at Brain-Train Cleveland in Westlake. Trainees will attempts to trigger a mechanism in sync with audible and visual guides. Repetition builds proficiency and over time, exceptional results can be achieved.
Establishing a Baseline
First-time users take a one-minute test in which they try to impact a trigger in rhythm with the metronome beat. After each test, a score is calculated representing your impacts' average number of milliseconds (ms), one thousandth of a second, off the metronome beat.
Golfers with normal mind-body timing and focus ability score between 40 and 80 ms, while naturally gifted individuals (e.g., PGA Tour Players) routinely test between 10 and 30 ms. With enough dedicated training on The Groove, most golfers can achieve elite-level scores below 10 ms. Use our 6 session training package this year! Call Diane Massad (440) 835-5071. Golfers Package $250 for 6 lessons
Beginning the Training
Once a baseline has been established, golfers begin training on The Groove. The Groove's neuro-motor engagement regimen uses patented auditory guidance tones and proprietary visual cues to help golfers develop precise mind-body timing and reliably locked-in focus. On the golf course, these improvements result in more consistent ball striking, fewer blow-up holes, better feel around the green and, ultimately, lower handicaps. Golfers who train with The Groove are better equipped to get into a rhythm and maintain it throughout a round. Accuracy will sharpen dramatically!
Duration of the Training
Users will notice some improvement in mind-body timing and focus after one hour of training with The Groove. For substantial improvement in timing and focus, six hours or more of training on The Groove is recommended. Once the 6 hour initial training course is complete, players use fifteen-minute training sessions to tune-up timing and focus before a round.
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