by John Mekrut | Apr 14, 2018 | ADD / ADHD, Medications, Uncategorized, Videos
I am very interested in how discoveries in neuroscience can affect changes in our educational system to make it more responsive to the needs of our kids and how they actually learn. I was watching PBS one night and I saw this animation from Sir Ken Robinson,...
by John Mekrut | Mar 24, 2018 | ADD / ADHD, Anxiety, Neurofeedback, stress, Uncategorized
The findings of a study on mindfulness training for children carried out by Dominic Crehan and Dr Michelle Ellefson at the University of Cambridge were presented on September 6 2013, at the British Psychological Society’s Cognitive Developmental Psychology...
by John Mekrut | Dec 6, 2017 | Memory
Today’s post come from Marc Green who has some interesting insights into how and why the brain remembers things. Why can’t you remember where you left your car keys or what you had for dinner two nights ago? You can check out this post and others at his...
by John Mekrut | Nov 25, 2017 | Just for fun, Uncategorized
Here is a brain teaser whose aim is to stimulate the connections or associations between words in your temporal lobe. In the left column you have a pair of words. Your goal is to find a third word that is connected or associated with both of these two...
by John Mekrut | Oct 18, 2017 | Brain Health, Peak Performance, stress, Uncategorized
I ran across a Huffington Post article today by Eileen Chadnick which lists 10 things to know about how your brain works best. From managing stress to how to focus, this is a great list to look over. My favorites are the myth of multitasking and making lists...
by John Mekrut | Aug 22, 2017 | Depression, Medications, Neurofeedback
The commonly prescribed anti-depressant Zoloft has been found to affect the volume of brain matter in key areas of the brains of depressed and non depressed patients. This finding was published in the journal Neuropharmacology. The problem is that Zoloft is...
by John Mekrut | Jul 30, 2017 | ADD / ADHD, Neurofeedback
Neurofeedback training in school- how can it be implemented? I have long been a proponent of the use of neurofeedback in a school setting for children with ADHD. In fact, I believe that all children could benefit from the self regulatory skills that brain training...
by John Mekrut | Jul 29, 2017 | Anxiety, Neurofeedback, PTSD, stress, Trauma
Two new studies validating the use of neurofeedback Two studies were recently published confirming the use of neurofeedback brain training for PTSD and measuring its beneficial effects on the participants. We who use it regularly have long known about the benefits...
by John Mekrut | Jul 1, 2017 | Videos
Want to know more about neurofeedback? Watch this short video from two of the most well respected people in the field, with decades of experience, Sue and Siegfried Othmer.
by John Mekrut | Jun 23, 2017 | Blog, Medications, Neurofeedback
There are two systems that govern how our brains operate, electrical and chemical, and they engage in an elaborate dance to determine how we interact with the world. How we work with those two systems is the subject of this fascinating article by Adrian Van...
