neuroAgility Speaks at Google Boulder May 2015

January 16th, 2015 - By Kerri Honaker in neuroAgility News, Neurofeedback News

Google 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

Sugar Season. It’s Everywhere, and Addictive.

January 6th, 2015 - By Kerri Honaker in Neurofeedback News

Sugar 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 News

Researchers 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 News

There 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”  

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 News

Studies 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 News

People 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”