Archive for May, 2011
Forming New Habits
My head was exposed to repetitive trauma. There were many hours spent believing everything would be all right- by learning true, right and correct, hoping someday my life would change. Waiting for anything, to give me back what I knew I had lost. They say “getting hit in the head just once can change you [...]
Plasticity of the Human Brain
Plasticity of Human Brain Research University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) of commercial brain fitness program from Posit Science Corporation: practising simple visual tasks can improve the accuracy of short-term, or “working” visual memory. Folowing 10 hours of training, participants improved their perceptual abilities significantly (e.g., increased the accuracy of visual working memory by about [...]
Prevent Brain Injuries
New studies about football and head injuries are positively frightening. According to a study of three Division I college teams sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (published in the Journal of Athletic Training), college players sustain more total hits to the head in practices than in games. More research: Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, [...]
Sugar Ray and Dancing with the Stars
I’m laughing aloud as I write this. Last night I received an e-mail that read, “From a brain function perspective, what do you think of Sugar Ray getting voted off Dancing with the Stars? He didn’t win!” Immediately I thought “that would depend upon the person’s perspective of what it means to win.” Think about [...]
Sincerity
My dear friends, I am now updating you on my new mental and physical challenges , it’s amazing how God can take our “interruptions” and turn them into something very beautiful. It was once said to me and this I won’t forget – ” A life cannot be repeated.” Being diagnose with Dementia Pugilistica, and [...]
