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- 15 Fun Ways You Can Exercise Your Brain To Fight Aging
By: Nice'n'wise | - Have you ever wondered why your dad seems enamored by the Times Crossword, or why your great aunt doesn"t begin her day until the Sudoku puzzle has been solved? No, they are not just addicted to these daily rituals; they have just found a simple and delightful way to keep mentally alert.
Yes, Cognitive Fitness is all about keeping yourself alert and mentally fit. It is nothing but arresting mental aging.
Exercising your brain the fun way, that is, by playing ...
Tags: Cognitive Fitness, brain exercise, anti-aging, Rubik Cube
- Treating Anxiety Disorders Without Medication
By: Christoffer X Altesino | - Today, the number of anxiety treatments available is many. For treating anxiety disorders without medication, the most commonly used therapies are-
a) Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
b) Breathing power/control techniques
c) Relaxation therapy
d) Exercise
e) Caffeine reduction
f) Complementary therapies, and
g) Medication
The foremost remedies for fighting back anxiety are to use education as well as information ...
Tags: anxiety disorders, Cognitive behavioral therapy, healing anxiety, relaxation therapy
- Social Anxiety Disorder Treatment - 7 Steps To Recovery
By: Christoffer X Altesino | - Before we get to the main discussion, let's see what a social anxiety disorder is. It is a social phobia. In more plain words, it refers to a mental state where people suffer the irrational fear of unsuccessfully facing some special social situations. The majority of the people suffer such disorder as they are afraid that they'll do poor when judged/scrutinized by people in the society.
However, a cognitive therapy can be a really useful social anxiety disorder treatment. This artic ...
Tags: anxiety disorder treatment, cognitive therapies, Mental Health, social anxiety
- Shame And Sex Addiction
By: Inner Balance and Peace | - Sex Addiction almost always serves a core shame. The experience of this core shame is so painful that it is almost unbearable. Shame for an addict has 2 dominant facets and with time, the 2 facets can become intertwined to the extent that it may be hard to tell them apart.
The 2 facets of Shame: One facet of shame is the addictive behavior itself. Behaviors such as compulsive masturbation, viewing pornography for hours, visiting massage parlors, etc., are out of control and re ...
Tags: sex addiction, addiction, shame, porn, porn addiction, causes of addiction, masturbation, compulsion, treatment, options, compassion, cognitive-behavio
- Eating Disorders A Major Health Problem But A Treatable One
By: Tis Amit | - Eating Disorders are one of the major health issues facing the world today. Millions of people around the world are suffering from these disorders and statistics show that whilst a large percentage (86%) are aged 20 years and above, 10% of reported cases are in children 10 years and younger in age. Recent studies have indicated that the number of individuals suffering with an eating disorder may be as many as 3 times greater than the number suffering from AIDS.
Many experts also beli ...
Tags: ating disorders, eating disorder treatment, eating disorder treatment center, anorexia, bulimia, cognitive behavioural therapy, anorexia treatment
- The Brain Fitness Center Of The Future? Your Public Library
By: Alvaro Fernandez | - Public libraries moved beyond just offering books long ago, but only now are demographic and scientific trends converging to sustain a more fundamental transformation in their role. A role in which they explicitly help promote cognitive health in the community, and potentially use Brain Fitness as a new framework to unify an array of lifelong learning, civic engagement, gaming, and health promotion initiatives.
A few months ago I spoke to librarians at The New York Public Library (N ...
Tags: brain teasers, cognitive health, mind teasers, brain fitness gym, brain gym
- Preparing Society For The Cognitive Age With New Brain Research, Education And Tools
By: Alvaro Fernandez | - Groundbreaking cognitive neuroscience research has occurred over the last 20 years - without parallel growth of consumer awareness and appropriate professional dissemination. "Cognition" remains an elusive concept with unclear implications outside the research community.
Earlier this year, I presented a talk to health care professionals at the New York Academy of Medicine, titled "Brain Fitness Software: Helping Consumers Separate Hope from Hype". I explained what computerized cogni ...
Tags: cognitive neuroscience, brain health, neuropsychology, brain research, cognitive, neurosoftware
- Anxiety Disorder In Children: Why Treatment Is Necessary
By: Bianca Tora | - Thirty years ago, children who balked at going to school were assumed to be unmotivated and lazy. Most parents assumed that their children had a "bad attitude" about school and that they would somehow grow out of it. Psychologists are now re-evaluating school phobia as an anxiety disorder that warrants early treatment and intervention.
Why Treatment is Necessary
Experts are urging parents to be aware of anxiety symptoms in children so that the disorder can be treate ...
Tags: anxiety disorder in children, cognitive behavior therapy, antidepressant medication, Zoloft, SSRI
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
By: jakebelf | - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy treatment has traditionally been used in the treatment of numerous conditions such as anxiety disorders, delusional disorders, depression, phobias, and other mental disorders. Recently Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Treatment programs have found that this is also effective in the treatment of and recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction. It is much more innovative and offers the client a greater chance of succeeding, although it is not 100% guaranteed for each and ...
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- Separation Anxiety In Children: What's Normal And What's Not
By: Bianca Tora | - Many children go through a phase in which they show anxiety and restlessness in the presence of unfamiliar people or situations. A baby may be unsettled by a new babysitter. A four year old may cry persistently during the first few days at kindergarten. These are perfectly normal situations and reactions.
One in every 25 children experiences some form of separation anxiety which can often be allayed by allowing the child to have a period of adjustment to his new situation. Howeve ...
Tags: separation anxiety disorder, cognitive behavior therapy, agoraphobia, separation anxiety in children
- When Does Mild Cognitive Impairment Convert To Alzheimer's Disease?
By: Dennis Fortier | - I commonly encounter this question in the press, I hear it discussed at conferences, and physicians wrestle with it on a regular basis. Despite the centrality of this question in so many forums of cognitive health, it is a nonsensical inquiry with inherent flaws.
Additionally, it propagates confusion that I want to clarify today.
There are many medical conditions that can cause a subtle cognitive deficit. Pondering whether or not mild cognitive impairment (MCI) wil ...
Tags: Mild Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer's disease
- 5 Tips To Help Your Newborn's Brain Develop
By: Tina Allen, LMT, CPMMT, CPMT, CIMT | - A baby's brain is twice as active as an adult's brain. When a baby is born, they have billions of brain cells, many of which are not yet connected. Those cells become connected through brand new experiences. When you cuddle your baby, talk to him and touch him lovingly, these new experiences start to make those essential brain connections.
The first three years are of special importance. During this time the brain has the greatest potential for learning and developing. In early c ...
Tags: brain development, baby, infant, touch, massage, cognitive development, tactile stimulation, first three years
- Does Cognitive Decline Begin At Age 27?
By: Michael Logan | - Has your Cognitive Decline begun? Are you older than age 27? According to a recent interpretation of Professor Timothy Salthouse's work, cognitive decline has begun for us, in some tests, even earlier than age 27.
According to Professor Salthouse at the University of Virginia, therapies designed to prevent or reverse age-related conditions may need to start earlier than we thought, long before people become pensioners.
In other words, that old adage about "use it o ...
Tags: brain workouts, brain aerobics, brain exercising, brain health, cognitive decline, brain increase, brain classes, brain training, brain wellness
- The Tourette Syndrome Child: Successful Management At Home And At School
By: Bianca Tora | - Tourette syndrome or TS is a genetic, neuro-chemical disorder characterized by involuntary muscle movement called tics. These tics can appear as simple repetitive movements such as blinking or exaggerated actions like gyrations on the floor.
Working with children with TS can be challenging especially when they sometimes present with accompanying conditions such as ADHD and OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). Rage or aggressive behavior has been reported as a clinical problem in ...
Tags: tourette syndrome, cognitive behavior therapy, adhd, obsessive compulsive disorder
- Why Cognitive Behaviour Techniques Could Improve Your Trading Beyond Your Wildest Dreams
By: Mercedes Oestermann van Essen | - If you are an experienced trader or investor you will know that mastery is a mind game. In fact, trading and investing are about understanding crowd psychology and your own psychology, because when you fully understand how you react to events deemed to be outside of your control you are taking control of yourself.
This very simple fact is easy to write about, and I have written about it a lot, yet putting the theory into practice is quite a different matter. Particularly in the ...
Tags: Crowd psychology, cognitive behaviour therapy, market turmoil, trading, investing, trader, investor, EFT
- New Research Unlocks A Key Ingredient To Increasing Brain Power
By: Suzanne Andrews | - Want to lose 3 pounds right now? Stop using your brain. I'll bet someone you know probably comes to mind. Your mind weighs approximately 3 pounds and if you don't use it, you lose it. Well maybe not the weight, but its amazing ability to help you move, to think and remember. Most of us have it backwards. We age and therefore stop moving. It's more like, stop moving and you age. If you could hear your body-mind talk, the conversation would go something like this, "Get a move on and stimulate ...
Tags: memory, brain power, cognitive functioning, alzheimer treatment, dementia, functional fitness, Suzanne Andrews
- Finding The Right Depression Treatment
By: Befitter | - Depression or prolonged sadness is actually quite common in the United States, around 9.5 percent of the American population actually suffers from this illness, however, not all of them get to be treated, thus, depression and its ill-effects continue to be a burden to some individuals. This illness may seem quite simple to treat but in reality, it takes more than a little cheering up to actually cure depression. Constant visits to a cognitive behavior therapist is a must as well as taking all th ...
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- The Man On Top Of The Mountain Did Not Fall There...
By: Mercedes Oestermann van Essen | - Well, that is pretty obvious, I guess. For everyone knows that in order to get to the top of the mountain you will have to either walk, climb, or have a helicopter drop you off. In other words, some form of action will be required from you. No action, no results. That's all there is to it.
However, many of us find it difficult to take action. particularly when the mood is low and negative, and everything seems like hard work. Well, we live in a dualistic universe and no matter ho ...
Tags: procrastination, financial freedom, procrastinate, expand awareness, depression cognitive awareness, EFT
- Light Your Inner Candle And Dissolve Your Fears
By: Mercedes Oestermann van Essen | - The Buddha said: Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared"
Happiness increases 10 fold when it is shared. If you are familiar with Dr. David Hawkin's work you will know that when our energy calibration rises our field of influence rises too.
Increasing self awareness will open your mind to realising just how susceptible you are to environmental influences. ...
Tags: The Buddha, dissolve fears, core fears, happiness, energy psychology, profound change, cognitive awareness
- Omega 3: The Natural Therapy For Add, Adhd And Bipolar
By: Gregory Smyth | - Attention deficit disorder is sometimes called the children's epidemic of the 20th century. Since its identification in the 1970s, levels of diagnosis have risen to around three to five percent of school aged children.
Between ten and forty percent of these sufferers continue to experience brain function impairment at some level into adulthood. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, a sub-class of ADD, and its parent disease are usually treated with stimulant drugs. However, a ...
Tags: alzheimer prevention's, brain function, alzeimer's disease, Alzheimer's symptoms, cognitive decline,
- Another Reason To Get On The Treadmill: Obesity And Cognitive Decline Linked
By: Gregory Smyth | - Being obese is well-understood to have a huge impact on your cardiovascular health, your risk of developing diabetes, and also on the health of your children, both born and unborn.
We know that a healthy diet and exercise are important in minimizing your risk of heart attack, stroke and many other health impacts, and obesity has now also been linked to a loss of brain function, in several ways.
International hospitals in Bangkok and other Thailand medical centers ...
Tags: alzheimer prevention's, brain function, alzeimer's disease, Alzheimer's symptoms, cognitive decline,
- How To "do" Happiness And Get Ahead Even In Difficult Times
By: Mercedes Oestermann van Essen | - It hardly needs pointing out that one of our core desires is to be happy. Yet happiness is as elusive as the Scarlet Pimpernel for most of us. We are caught up in the uncertainties of life and the daily worries of survival in an environment that seems to be getting tougher rather than easier.
All the talk about the energetic shift, ascension and the like are of little help when you are facing your own demons in a world that appears basically unfriendly and dangerous. Most of us a ...
Tags: True happiness, successful life, natural healing powers, negative emotions, cognitive awareness
- Health Success Strategies - Putting Cognitive Behavior Therapy Into Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
By: Ken Donaldson | - If your first thought about the title was, "That sounds boring," you might be right. If you knew that over 2 million Americans were affected and afflicted by Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and chances are you know at least one of these people, then you might be more intrigued.
But what the heck is CBT?? Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy...and it's one of the more effective and efficient methods to treat OCD.
Let's start with a little background information.
Tags: Ken Donaldson, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, mental health
- Can Games, Meditation And Parenting Help Improve Attention?
By: Alvaro Fernandez | - I am honored to interview today Michael I. Posner, a prominent scientist in the field of cognitive neuroscience. He is currently an emeritus professor of neuroscience at the University of Oregon (Department of Psychology, Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences). In August 2008, the International Union of Psychological Science made him the first recipient of the Dogan Prize "in recognition of a contribution that represents a major advance in psychology by a scholar or team of scholars of hi ...
Tags: meditation, mindfulness, brain health, cognitive health, brain teasers, brain exercises,
- Basic Understanding Of Trichotillomania
By: Cherry Bonachita | - When a person starts to have an uncontrollable impulse to pull their own hair, such condition may be known as trichotillomania. Such urges may be overwhelming. This condition is known to affect 2% of the population but many people still suffer in secret because they are convinced that they are the only ones afflicted with such disease. Trichotillomania fit into a cluster of impulse control disorder that is often caused by stress. People do not want to pull their hair but they cannot help the ...
Tags: Cognitive Behavioral Therapists, hair replacement, Trichotillomania
- Cognitive Restructuring- Violence
By: Larry Lloyd | - To fully understand violence and the angry feelings that lead to it, one has to know the four key root causes of anger. Even more than just that, one has to go to the deepest sense of who we are, our personal way of being.
People fit in one of two catagories; one is responsive and the other is resistant. A responsive individual is open and kind to those around them; but, a resistant individual is closed off and rude. Resistant, self-deceived criminals commit violent crimes from th ...
Tags: violence, resistant, sign, choice, feelings, mercy, children, solutions, society, behavior modification, cognitive restructuring, way of being, invita
- Cognitive Skills
By: Larry Lloyd | - Most individuals have the physical abilities to achieve success, however a lot do not possess the necessary emotional or cognitive skills. When a person's self esteem is increased their emotional IQ or EQ and readiness to make life changes increases as well.
Cognitive Restructuring has the ability to help people suffering from the following issues: * Phobias * Childhood abuse * Anxiety * Lack of goals * Criminal values * Loneliness * Lack of ambition * Broken relationships * Despa ...
Tags: physical, cognitive skills, changes, suffering, childhood abuse, broken relationships, fear, self betrayal, depression, stress, anger, divorce, co dep
- Cognitive Therapy: Top 7 Tips To Feeling Better
By: Raymond Lee Geok Seng | - What if negative thinking does creep in and you find yourself mired in unpleasant emotions. Then what? Cognitive therapy calls for tackling the problem using the seven easy tips. Seven tips may not sound like many, but simplicity is one of cognitive therapy's major strengths. It is quick and easy, and once people understand the basic concepts, almost anyone can practice it. Sometimes, though, cognitive therapy's very simplicity puts people off. They say that it is so simple, it can ...
Tags: Cognitive therapy, emotions, thoughts
- Use It Or Lose It: The Theory And Practice Of Brain Exercise And Fitness For Cognitive Health
By: Alvaro Fernandez | - Who has not heard "Use It or Lose It". Now, what is "It"? Last week I gave a talk at the Italian Consulate in San Francisco, and one of the areas attendants seemed to enjoy the most was learning what our brains are and how they work, peaking into the "black box" of our minds. Without understanding at least the basics, how can we make good decisions about our own brain health and fitness?
Let's review at a glance:
The brain is composed of 3 "brains" or main sub-syste ...
Tags: brain training, brain age, brain exercise, brain, cognitive fitness, brain health, healthy aging
- Eat Your Peas And Carrots, Or At Least Your Carrots
By: Simon Evans | - A new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine links intake of beta-carotene (a pre-form of vitamin A found in carrots) to improved cognitive performance in later life. We have appreciated the benefits of vitamin A in brain development for a long time. But until now, the beneficial role in the adult brain has been less obvious.
The power of the new study is that it followed participants in a controlled study for 18 years, from about 55 to 73 years old on average. This ...
Tags: brain fitness, brain function, cognitive intelligence, current issues on nutrition, fruit and vegetable in nutrition, nutrition food values, why is nu
- Emotional Intelligence, Reading Faces, And Meditation
By: Alvaro Fernandez | - Concealed emotions, also called facial "microexpressions", are the fleeting expressions that, believe it or not, you make when consciously or unconsciously trying to hide your true emotions. In conscious microexpressions you may be trying to lie, while with unconscious expressions, you may not even be aware of what they are truly feeling.
Paul Ekman, Ph.D. has made a study of these microexpressions. According to Ekman, "These expressions tend to be very extreme and very fast. Eigh ...
Tags: meditation, cognitive fitness, cognitive interventions, brain training, train intelligence,
- Are Yoga And Meditation Good For My Brain? A Scientific Take On Stress Management
By: Alvaro Fernandez | - Yes!
Yoga, meditation, and visualization are all excellent ways to learn to manage your stress levels. Reducing stress, and the stress hormones, in your system is critical to your brain and overall fitness.
Why is this so? It’s clear that our society has changed faster than our genes. Instead of being faced with physical, immediately life-threatening crises that demand instant action, these days we deal with events and illnesses that gnaw away at us slowly, wi ...
Tags: yoga, meditation, mbsr, cognitive fitness, cognitive health, cognitive training, cognitive reserve, scientific brain training, brain teasers
- Cognitive Fitness And Health: 10 Debunked Myths On How Your Mind Works.
By: Alvaro Fernandez | - Over the last year we have interviewed more than 10 leading neuroscientists and psychologists worldwide to learn about their research and thoughts, and have news to report.
What can we say today that we couldn't have said only 10 years ago? That what neuroscience pioneer Santiago Ramon y Cajal claimed in the XX century, "Every man can, if he so desires, become the sculptor his own brain", may well become reality in the XXI.
Let's now debunk 10 myths, still too preva ...
Tags: cognitive fitness, cognitive health, cognitive training, cognitive reserve, scientific brain training, brain teasers
- The Mentality Of Physical Activity
By: Simon Evans | - An exciting new study came out this week that is sure to add fuel to the debate about cutting physical education from schools. Study after study shows the cognitive benefits of physical activity in school age kids. The new research adds to previous findings in a well-controlled experimental design.
Researchers from the Medical College of Georgia worked with nearly 200 sedentary and overweight kids between the ages of 7 and 11 years old. They divided the kids up into three groups, ...
Tags: activities for kids nutrition, alternative types of medicine, article health and fitness, brain fitness, cognitive intelligence, physical intelligence
- General Memory Development
By: Stephen Campbell | - Many a times you read a book and when you close the book and try to recollect what you have read, you are blank. Therefore, you need to know the capacity of your working memory, strategies, metamemory, and content. One can have memory problems like infantile amnesia or eyewitness testimony. It improves with growing age, throughout the entire childhood.
Working memory is the thing that remains for a short period of time and allows the information to process while it is still in be ...
Tags: General Memory Development, memory, working memory, cognitive development, metamemory
- Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks
By: Simon Evans | - Most people think of aging in association with a decline of the brain and body. While it's true that your body systems tend to breakdown faster the older you get, this is not out of your control. You do not have to allow your physical or mental capacities to weaken with time. You can do something about it and keep your Brain Fit.
Befriending Grandfather Time
It's not about trying to prevent aging, that's impossible. But you do have a lot of control over how graceful ...
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- Beck Diet: Train Your Brain To Think Like A Thin Person-and Maintain Weight Loss (part 2)
By: Alvaro Fernandez | - Note: we continue the interview with Dr. Judith Beck, author of The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person.
Alvaro Fernandez (AF) had asked Judith Beck (JB), "What are the cognitive and emotional skills and habits that dieters need to train, and where your book helps?" and Dr. Beck had started by listing How to motivate oneself and Plan in advance. The interview cotinues:
JB: Overcome sabotaging thoughts. Dieters have hundreds and hundreds ...
Tags: Beck diet, cognitive therapy, cognitive training, cognitive health, brain training, brain fitness, mental training
- The Beck Diet: Train Your Brain To Think Like A Thin Person-and Maintain Target Weight (part 1)
By: Alvaro Fernandez | - Today we are honored to interview Dr. Judith Beck on how cognitive techniques can be applied to develop a number of important mental skills. The latest application of these?. Losing weight.
Dr. Judith Beck is the Director of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond. Her most recent book is The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Br ...
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- A Neuroscientist's Perspective On How To Protect Your Brain
By: Alvaro Fernandez | - Dr. Yaakov Stern is the Division Leader of the Cognitive Neuroscience Division of the Sergievsky Center at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York. He is one of the leading proponents of the Cognitive Reserve theory.
Alvaro Fernandez (AF): Dear Dr. Stern, it is a pleasure to have you here. Let me first ask you this: the implications of your research are pretty astounding, presenting major implications across sectors and age groups. What has been the ...
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- June 10th: New Cognitive Health Roadmap Announced
By: Alvaro Fernandez | - Many publications haven't fully announced this yet, but we have an exciting initiative to report on. On June 10th, the National Brain Health Road Map was announced by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Alzheimer's Association. The objective of the task forece is to maintain or improve the cognitive performance of all adults accross America, helping us all maintain memory, attention, and other important mental faculties.
I want to first share with you the 10 top ...
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- Loss Of Odor Perception Might Signal Alzheimer's
By: Ed Bagley | - Copyright 2007 Ed Bagley
Imagine my recoil when I read the above Associated Press headline recently.
The story went on to detail the first study that linked loss of smell to Alzheimer's. Difficulty identifying odors was associated with a higher risk of progressing from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's. As someone with very little sense of smell and taste, perhaps I should be worried.
These kinds of medical studies rarely offer a cheery re ...
Tags: loss of smell, Alzheimer's, cognitive impairment, medical study, identifying odors, disease
- Phonemic Awareness Assessments Identify A Weak Cognitive Skill Necessary For Learning
By: Paul Counts | - A phonemic awareness assessment can help your child identify a weak cognitive skill which is necessary for learning. Weak cognitive skills are a large factor in the majority of learning disabilities which affect people from all walks of life.
Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and analyze discreet sounds. It is the cognitive skill that allows us to connect speech sounds to the letters in words. There are various stages that your children will go through in their learning d ...
Tags: learning disabilities, adhd, learning centers, cognitive skills, testing centers
- Phonemic Awareness Assessments Identify A Weak Cognitive Skill Necessary For Learning
By: Ken Gibson | - A phonemic awareness assessment can help your child identify a weak cognitive skill which is necessary for learning. Weak cognitive skills are a large factor in the majority of learning disabilities which affect people from all walks of life. Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and analyze discreet sounds. It is the cognitive skill that allows us to connect speech sounds to the letters in words. There are various stages that your children will go through in their learning development, and ...
Tags: learning disabilities, adhd, learning centers, cognitive skills, testing centers
- The History Of Psychological Research In Reading
By: Sophia Hayes | - As reading involves perceptual and cognitive processes as well as knowledge of language and grammar, these three basic processes have been the subject of experimental research for some time. Such processes include the identification and extraction of meaning, processes involved at sentence/phrase level and the processes involved in understanding thematic structures.
Learning to read in preliterate societies and learning in societies awash with print may have vastly different cogni ...
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- Why Kids Who Play Chess Outperform Their Classmates - Part Iii
By: Robert Sasata | - This is the third part of a three part article investigating scientific research into the value of chess as a tool to aid cognitive development. This article will summarize the results of a study about the positive value of chess in kids' education, by Ferguson (Ferguson, Robert, 1995. "Chess in Education: Research Summary. A Review of Key Chess Research Studies." For the Borough of Manhattan Community College Chess in Education 'A Wise Move' Conference.)
Ferguson Study
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- Why Kids Who Play Chess Outperform Their Classmates - Part Ii
By: Robert Sasata | - This is the second part of a three part article series investigating scientific research into the value of chess as a tool to aid cognitive development. In this part, the Fried and Ginsburg study will be discussed (The Effect of Learning to Play Chess on Cognitive, Perceptual, & Emotional Development in Children. Unpublished paper available from U.S. Chess Federation).
Fried and Ginsburg Study
A subsequent study by Steven Fried and Norman Ginsburg expanded on Christ ...
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- Why Kids Who Play Chess Outperform Their Classmates - Part I
By: Robert Sasata | - Success at the strategy board game chess has long been considered an activity requiring superior mental abilities. What is becoming increasingly clear, however, is that chess can be used as a valuable tool to help develop various cognitive skills, especially in school-aged children.
This is the first in a three-part article that will present some scientific research about the value of chess in improving skills in traditional educational fields such as mathematics, science and lang ...
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- The Psychological Reality Of Positive Thought And Complex Thought
By: Dr Leo Kady | - A whole new school of psychiatry has grown up around the development of positive thinking. The key is intercepting negative thoughts. Surprisingly, no matter how positive we think we are, many of us have internal, mostly negative chatter that ties up thecerebral circuits all day long. Much of this chatter is actually pretty idiotic if you stop and listen to it. Most of the time we're simply ripping ourselves apart. The more negative our mood, the more we're apt to nag ourselves. The science of p ...
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