How teachers incorporate movement into lessons to make it part of learning, not just a break from it. Full Article: The Washington Post, “Letting kids move in Class isn’t a break from learning. It IS learning.”
Bedtime Has Huge Impact on Sport
January 29th, 2015 - By Kerri Honaker in Athletic/Performance Enhancement, Information on ADD/ADHD, Neurofeedback NewsOur internal body clock has such a dramatic impact on sporting ability that it could alter the chances of Olympic gold, say researchers. Full article: BBC News Health, “Bedtime ‘has huge impact on sport’ “
neuroAgility Speaks at Google Boulder May 2015
January 16th, 2015 - By Kerri Honaker in neuroAgility News, Neurofeedback NewsGoogle Hobby Talk – Abstract: neuroAgility will present qEEG (brain mapping) and EEG biofeedback (neurofeedback). Our business is working with brain wave activity, and teaching people how to change their electrical activity for different reasons. Our areas of specialty are in ADD/ADHD, Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Performance (Athletes, Musicians, Public Speaking, Professionals), ASD, Brain Injury. We have been working in this specialty area for 14 years …more
How to Stop Procrastinating
January 9th, 2015 - By Kerri Honaker in Athletic/Performance Enhancement, Information on ADD/ADHD, Neurofeedback News, PsychotherapySome dos and don’ts for closing the knowing-doing gap. Full Article: Chopra Centered Lifestyle Newsletter, “How to Stop Procrastinating”
Sugar Season. It’s Everywhere, and Addictive.
January 6th, 2015 - By Kerri Honaker in Neurofeedback NewsSugar is everywhere. It is celebration, it is festivity, it is love. It’s also dangerous. Sugar is addictive, literally, in the same way as drugs. A recent study showed that sugar, perhaps more than salt, contributes to the development of cardiovascular disease. Evidence is growing, too, that eating too much sugar can lead to fatty liver disease, hypertension, Type 2 diabetes, obesity and kidney disease. …more
Limiting Rest Is Found To Help Young Concussion Patients
January 6th, 2015 - By Kerri Honaker in Athletic/Performance Enhancement, Information on Brain Injury, Mild/Traumatic Brain Injury, Neurofeedback NewsResearchers had expected to find that more rest would be helpful for young patients with mild concussions. Instead, a pediatric emergency medicine doctor at Children’s Hospital, and his colleagues found that the patients advised to rest for five days reported more physical and emotional symptoms like headache and nausea in first few days, and more often experienced irritability and sadness over 10 days. Full Article: …more
Complexity and the 10,000 Hour Rule
December 16th, 2014 - By Kerri Honaker in Athletic/Performance Enhancement, Neurofeedback NewsThere are no instant experts in cognitively demanding activities. The ten-thousand-hour research reminds us that “the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.” Full article: The New Yorker, “Complexity and the Ten-Thousand-Hour Rule”
Teaching Mindfulness to Teenagers
December 11th, 2014 - By Kerri Honaker in Athletic/Performance Enhancement, Information on ADD/ADHD, Neurofeedback NewsThis article teaches how to teach mindfulness to teenagers. It would also be good for adults that work or live with teens!
Why Being Idle Can Lead to Better Thinking
December 1st, 2014 - By Kerri Honaker in Anxiety, Athletic/Performance Enhancement, Information on ADD/ADHD, Mild/Traumatic Brain Injury, Neurofeedback NewsStudies show that people would rather do something—anything—than be alone with their thoughts. But it’s through reflection, daydreaming, and introspection that we make sense of information and experiences and come up with new insight and ideas. Full Article: Lifehacker, “Why Being Idle Can Lead to Better Thinking”
A Natural Fix for ADHD
November 21st, 2014 - By Kerri Honaker in Information on ADD/ADHD, Neurofeedback NewsPeople with ADHD may not have a disorder, so much as a set of behavioral traits that don’t match the expectations of our contemporary culture. The problem is not just the brain. The problem is boredom. Full Article: The New York Times, “A Natural Fix for ADHD”