How to Get into the Zone for Optimal Athletic Performance! By Dr. David P. Sortino – Neurofeedback Center for Increased Athletic Performance. ** High-Level Athletes Who've Amped-Up Their Performance with Neurofeedback! • Phil Mickelson: World Golf Hall of Famer • C Milan football club has introduced their mind room including [...]
How to Get into the Zone for Optimal Athletic Performance! By Dr. David P. Sortino – Neurofeedback Center for Increased Athletic Performance. ** High-Level Athletes Who've Amped-Up Their Performance with Neurofeedback! • Phil Mickelson: World Golf Hall of Famer • C Milan football club has introduced their mind room including [...]
Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle One of the greatest challenges parents and teachers will face will be Electronic Screen Syndrome or the effect electronics will play on your student’s learning brain. Today’s students, aged five to sixteen, spend an average of six and a half hours a day [...]
Volunteering at School Is Good For Your Brain! The new school year is almost two months old, and one of the least talked about needs of teachers are classroom volunteers. Classroom volunteers represent an unknown necessity in most schools. They are usually retired senior citizens who are multifaceted in their [...]
A recent Press Democrat article titled “Santa Rosa City Schools Renews Push for College-prep Class Requirements” for all students is in my opinion a simplistic approach toward meeting the needs of all high school students and could actually accelerate the high school drop-out rate and even increase juvenile delinquency. My [...]
Our juvenile hall population is at an all time high, 2.2 million inmates at an average cost of about $35,000 per inmate (OJJDP, 2006). In fact, we lead the world in incarcerated juvenile offenders and the juvenile system is fast becoming a breeding ground for adult prisons. In Washington State [...]
School Readiness, Poverty and Children’s Brain Development
According to official poverty statistics, 22.7% of families in California were classified as not having enough resources to make ends meet in 2014. This is down from 2013 (23.5%), but well above the recent low in 2007 (17.3%). Although the poverty rate in Sonoma County is lower, (19.7), the question [...]
With exams always on the front burner for many students, new research suggests that unusual test taking techniques can actually help students achieve higher performance. As a student, I was taught what is called “errorless learning” or to create study conditions that prevent errors. However, some researchers suggest a more [...]
When Choosing Wrong Answers Can be Right
