by braintrain on February 8, 2012
Brain Blood Circulation Important to Health
Brain blood circulation is vital to brain health. The importance of oxygen infiltration within the brain cells is critical for cognitive functioning.
Like the mantra for physical exercise: Move it or Lose it! Dr. Amen holds that activities that recruit increases in blood flow within the brain tissue are vital to brain health.
Dr. Daniel Amen, one of the world's leading brain researcher using SPECT imaging to view brain health, has released an new book, Use Your Brain to Change Your Age. His recent blog cites the importance of cerbral blood flow cultivation.
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by braintrain on January 22, 2012
Training Targets Your Personal Goals
Goals drive human behaviors~daily!
In childhood, youngsters target basic movement as their goals: skipping, hopping, throwing a ball.
As we age into adulthood, and on the way, human goals become very personalized:
- Seeking skills as performers: athletes, musicians, acting, academic proficiencies
- Improving cognitive precision in functioning in unique professions and in career pursuits
- Adjusting and maximizing abilities to full potentials, especially if deficits are present: whether congenital or acquired
During a NPR interview, author Gary Marcus cites his research for Guitar Zero, to amplify ways to gain musical skills as an adult by recruiting learning skills.
Similarly, Sir William Osler, physician, advocated for aging and the pursuit of accomplishments throughout one's life: cradle to grave. His philosophies were reviewed in this New York Times article
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by braintrain on January 6, 2012
Use Brain Train Cleveland's Interactive Metronome Training to improve your ability to think fast.
Faster thinking is possible as a person increases the rate of transmission of information along their nervous system, to the brain. With a computer-based system called the Interactive Metronome, Brain Train Cleveland offers a 3 week program in 12 one-hour session to provide quicker response times.
Student gains include:
- reading rate increases
- memory deepening
- math fluency
- language gains
- hand-writing smoothing
- coordination improvement
- cognitive functioning sharpens
We invite you to set a complementary appointment to experience the process and TRY a complementary 20 minute Timing Survey to check your current rate as well as compare your rate to national standards include leading professional athletes! Ask for Diane Massad, she will guide your initial outreach.
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by braintrain on December 30, 2011
Brain Train Cleveland Gives 3 week speed thinking training
Using the Interactive Metronome training process, Brain-Train Cleveland can provide you the benefits of mental processing speed increases.
These benefits include:
- reading fluency gains
- ability to link [sequence] motor skills
- musical cohesion with rhythm
- thinking power
- language fluency
- power to function efficiently on standardized tests: ACT, SAT
- address deficit conditions: ADD/ADHD
- delay onset of neurological conditions: Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease
Call Brain Train Cleveland and schedule a complementary 20 minute Timing Survey for you or a family member. (440) 835.5071
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by braintrain on December 15, 2011
By improving brain processing speeds,
kids will make gains in the speed of their thinking
Gain in impulsivity as well as auditory processing gains are measurably make in the 3 week training process at Brain-Train Cleveland.
Using the computer-based system called the Interactive Metronome, trainees will:
- gain attention control
- be able to ignore distracters
- increase fluency in math and reading
- improved academic performance by a full grade level
Though a very direct system of using simple hand or foot movements, the students will respond to a steady beat. They attempt to move their foot [for example] in unison with the beat's sound. In trying to mimic moving to the beat!
The training effect is powerful:
- improving behavior control [Ants in Pants] ADD, ADHD
- enabling gains on standardized tests: SAT, ACT
- speed thinking leads the way to faster thought management
- coordination improves as motor planning becomes smoothed
Use the upcoming Holiday Break to begin the training!
FREE 210 minute Timing Survey starts the process for you or your child.
Call (440) 835-5071 and visit our information center at Brain-Train.
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by braintrain on December 13, 2011
Give the brain a rhythmic beat and make gains for the brain.
There are significant connection between full recruitment of brain cells and the exposure to rhythmic physical activity: even the use of musical instruments improves brain function.
With the use of a steady recurring beat, people can establish solid neural pathways between the brain and their intentions.
Learning skills and cognitive functioning respond to a steady beat.
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by braintrain on December 5, 2011
Unique Brain Training Speeds Up Test-taking Times
In 3 weeks, your school-aged child will be able to speed up their internal timing to permit more efficient performance in testing situations.
- reading fluency
- processing speeds along the neural pathways
- pacing skills
All are improved as a child makes measurable gains in the abilities to:
- focus
- concentrate
- filter OUT distracting noises and situations
View the video to understand the unique process that the Interactive Metronome brain training can offer your student.
Call Brain Train Cleveland to schedule an appointment to begin training (440) 835-5071.
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by braintrain on November 30, 2011
Students Can Increase Their Knowledge of Internal Timing by Training with the Interactive Metronome
As a student works with the computer-based training program, the Interactive Metronome, they will become engaged with the process as lots of feedback gives them great connection with the results of their efforts.
Research show us that in engaging a student in the learning process, the brain growth if fired up at the level of the dendrites. And that increases the development of new neural pathways.
By helping kids identify their own internal timing:
- what if feels like to be on the beat
- or in contrast, behind the beat
They ultimately learn how to counteract their own timing tendency. In regard to sensory input, this gain in ability to self-modulate gives the student more control and self-regulation.
Again, the visual and auditory feedback for the trainee sharpens the abilities to focus and concentrate including:
- the ability to tolerate noise in classrooms
- reducing distractions awareness
- positively increases adaptive responses
- improves body awareness
- enhances sensory modulation
- provides gains on academic benchmarks
The Interactive Metronome is available, world-wide. Find a Provider at the Interactive Metronome site.
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by braintrain on November 29, 2011
Three weeks of Brain Training Yields Measurable Gains
With the series of one-hour sessions, spread over three weeks, the student will generate data in each session. The date describes the various response timing improvements for:
- the hands together
- the hands, independent of one another
- the toes working in alternating ways: left, right, left, right
- the toes of one foot moving while balance is maintained by the other foot
- the heels: alternating repetitions while alternating usage
- the heels, independently working: right only or left only
- one hand moving with opposite leg being used: cross-midline work
- the reverse of cross-midline work
The last two items demand cross-hemisphere recruitment and spur significant gains in motor planning and sequencing.
Specific signs of gains include:
- increases in the ability to focus and concentrate: extended successful studying
- tasks get completed much faster or with greater ease: homework
- the ability to get started on tasks
- an increase in the expression of ideas
- increased participation in conversation
- increases in the ability to stick with a difficult task
- independent work
- memory acuity
You will see changes in attention, learning strategies and confidence.
Give you children or yourself these benefits with a 3 week course at Brain Train Cleveland, call (440) 835-5071 today for a complementary 20 minute timing survey.
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by braintrain on November 28, 2011
In 3 weeks, Your child's thinking will quicken and skills will improve
Using Brain Train Cleveland's computer-based program, your child will gain speed in their thinking.
With measurable daily results during their training, you child will improve the rate of transmission of information along their nervous system: their brain.
Improvement in their brain's millisecond timing creates improvement in attention, school work, rhythm, and sports actions.
These benefits will become natural:
- Better performance on tests
- Less distractibility
- Better communications: smooth language formation
- Memory and retention
- Improved coordination: motor planning and sequencing
- Less time needed for schoolwork: focus on tasks at hand
Standardized testing that are used across the United States validate Interactive Metronome Training that Brain Train Cleveland offers.
These gains are made by trainees:
- Reading levels advance a year or more
- Math fluency results in one year or more growth
- Brain processing speeds are more efficient
- Learning becomes less stressful
These results give the trainee the ability to feel confident as their can effectively focus and complete tasks. Their ability to self-regular their responses: impulsivity or speaking out. The ability to work independently is achieved as they have reduced their frustrations. That surely means more enjoyment at school and at home!
Call Diane Massad for a brief overview of the program's sequences. It will change your brain in 3 weeks. Look at the video for a quick understanding of the process.
Schedule your 20 minute complementary Timing Survey at Brain Train Cleveland today (440) 835-5071.
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