Brain Fitness
This week, public television stations across the country will air a new special, called "The Brain Fitness Program," that explores the brain's amazing ability to change throughout a person's life. The 90-minute PBS special features the system developed by Dr. Michael Merzenich and more than 50 neuroscientists around the world - the Brain Fitness Program - and airs as part of the December 2007 pledge drive (check local listings) on PBS. Dr. Merzenich, of the University of California San Francisco, has been leading the effort to design the scientifically based set of brain exercises demonstrated in this program.
The Brain Fitness Program highlights the efforts of Dr. Merzenich and his colleagues to create a system for strengthening the brain and making it perform with more agility, speed and comprehension. The Posit Science Brain Fitness Program is based on a unique, patented methodology that leverages neuroplasticity - the ability of the brain to change, adapt and even rewire itself.
While "The Brain Fitness Program" special focuses on the aging brain, the research behind brain plasticity applies to K-12 education as well, and is at the core of the Fast ForWord family of educational software products developed by Oakland-based Scientific Learning Corp. (NASDAQ:SCIL), a company co-founded by Dr. Merzenich. Scientific Learning's Family of Fast ForWord products provides struggling readers with computer-delivered interventions and intensive exercises that build the cognitive skills required to read and learn effectively.
The Fast ForWord software is based on over 30 years of foundational research and proven results in thousands of schools and learning centers around the world. By exercising processing skills through intensive, adaptive activity, actual physical changes occur in the brain. Fast ForWord products trigger change in the brain and provide an optimal foundation for learning and reading success.
Indeed, a brain-imaging study of dyslexic children at Children's Hospital Boston found that sound training via the Fast ForWord software can literally rewire children's brains - correcting the sound processing problem and improving reading. The study was published in October in the journal, Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience.
Scientific Learning creates educational software that accelerates learning by improving the processing efficiency of the brain. The patented Fast ForWord family of products provides struggling readers with computer-delivered interventions and intensive exercises that build the cognitive skills required to read and learn effectively.
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#1 Brain injury survivers
Hi there,
I am a brain injury survivor from an accident on my motorcycle in July 2007 I am still in recovery at this time.
It has taken me this long to realise that the doctors that said it would take two years for me to get back to some normal life and I laughed at the time!But my experience has proved they were right with what they said.
I able to frive my car OK but I have not worked properly since then. But I am getting better!
I did loose my wife with all the emotional and tough times we went through.
My family went through a rough time while I was in a coma two months of not knowing if I was going come through it one month in an induced coma and another natural, so I was not aware of what my family went through waiting to see if I would survive. They all should get medals for their dedication to me and my fight.
I am trully grateful to all the doctors that work in the area of brain injury because if those people were not doing what they do best I would not be here now so I am making a point of letting all those I can tell how amazing those people are is all I want to do now having gone through a hell of a time with Brain injury and I had it good compared to some people I saw in hospital beside me and in recovery at the centers I went to.
Some I am atrully grateful survivor!!!That comes from the bottom of my heart!!!
Thank you!
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