Brain Training Articles & News

And you thought patting your head and rubbing your stomach was hard! If you REALLY want to test your powers of concentration and memory, youshould try reciting the names of all 44 American presidents while executinga complicated cup-stacking pattern while surrounded by a distracting chorusof stomping, clapping classmates. Now do it in 17 seconds. A ...

Your memory is powered by core brain skills, also known as cognitive skills. But your brain isn’t exactly the Lone Ranger. It can’t function by itself (or even with a single trusted friend named Tonto). Instead, your brain depends on myriad systems in your body (and the health of those systems) in order to do ...

With Thanksgiving and Christmas behind us, you probably had the chance to hang out with friends and family, creating warm, festive memories. Now all you have to do is remember them. As we age, memory can weaken. The good news is that memory skills are not “fixed.” You can improve and strengthen your ability to ...

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 she called LearningRx in Shreveport to see if they could help. The following video is proof. She ...

Anytime a great new idea comes on the scene, it is inevitably followedby a herd of experts all claiming that they have the best resource foryou. But how can you tell which one is telling the truth? Brain training is no exception to this principle. It’s new, it’sexciting and it is yielding amazing results in ...

For years, moms have been making their kids take summertime piano lessons. Not surprisingly, moms know best: it turns out those piano lessons may have helped you more than you realize. Over the summer, students typically lose over 22% of what they learned the previous year. They call it “summer slide” and Kim Bellini, director ...

Introducing a brand new LearningRx website… LearningRx.org! Parents with children who struggle to learn are careful to choose wisely which programs they invest in. They want a program that is created by and run by people who care for them and their children, from the heart. The purpose of LearningRx.org is to give parents the ...

June 15th is National Brain Training Day! On June 1st, LearningRx, thecountry’s leading personal brain training company declared June15th National Brain Training Day. The day was declared with two purposesin mind. First, to dispel myths around cognitive skills training. Secondly,to raise awareness of the phenomenal gains the right type of brain trainingcan bring. “LearningRx brain ...

Does your child need brain training or tutoring? What’s the difference? Do you know? Take this short quiz, and see if you can tell the difference. Get a piece of paper, read through the two scenarios in each question, and write down which story is like brain training and which story is like tutoring. Brain ...

Welcome to our new LearningRx Brain Training Blog! Here you’ll find information about everything related to brain training: what it is, how it works, and how LearningRx helps propel struggling students to the top of the class. At LearningRx, we have a passion to help kids (and their families) get past painful and frustrating struggles ...