Recent Posts in 2010

• Seeing Red? How This Favorite Holiday Color Impacts Your Brain

  Dec 21, 2010
  During the holidays, the color red is everywhere we look, from bulbs and bows to Santa's trademark threads. What impact does this favorite holiday hue have on your brain? For starters, studies show ...
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• Is Your Brain Making You Spend Too Much This Christmas?

  Dec 17, 2010
  Three Simple Tips to Avoid Impulse Spending and Stay within Your Holiday Budget The holidays are here, which for most of us means spending time shopping in malls or online looking for gifts for loved ...
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• All I want for Christmas is a Healthier Brain

  Dec 10, 2010
  If a "healthier brain" is on your holiday wish list, you're in luck. That's because cranberries–a staple at most holiday feasts–are actually good for your brain. Studies show that cranberries protect ...
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• Do You Travel A lot? Take a Couple of Naps and Call LearningRx in the Morning

  Dec 8, 2010
  Chronic jet lag shrinks your brain, making learning and remembering more difficult for up to a month after you return home! So says a team of psychologists from the University of California, Berkeley. ...
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• Did you see The Biggest Loser last week? We are that "Brain Training Company"!

  Dec 1, 2010
  When Phil and Amy Parham’s three-year-old son Rhett was diagnosed with autism, they pursued a variety of therapies for six years. Amy says, “Some helped and some didn’t.” Today, Amy says, Rhett is ...
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• Need to improve your concentration skills? Try F.O.C.U.S.

  Nov 23, 2010
  Good concentration and focus are prescriptions for a successful life. They are also the result of active and successful attention skills. Strong, efficient attention skills enable us to concentrate ...
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• Dyscalculia

  Nov 19, 2010
  The Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary online defines dyscalculia as, "impairment of mathematical ability due to an organic condition of the brain". Talk about definition that leaves you cold! How ...
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• Your Brain on Food: How Spices & Nutrients Affect Your Cognitive Abilities

  Nov 10, 2010
  Did you know that eating a potato can calm you down? Or that nutmeg and cinnamon can cause feelings of euphoria? Amino acids and other natural compounds are able to steer our mood swings. Nutrients ...
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• Do You Love Your Grandmother? Watch This Video.

  Oct 20, 2010
  Think LearningRx is just for kids? Virginia Romero, from Shreveport, LA is 82 years old. She had a stroke and lost some of her abilities. She couldn’t remember where she lived or how old she was – so ...
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• What Does Dyslexia Feel Like?

  Oct 15, 2010
  Read this: We pegin our qrib eq a faziliar blace, a poqy like yours enq zine. Iq conqains a hunqraq qrillion calls qheq work qogaqhys py qasign. Having trouble reading this? Well, this gives you just ...
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