UC Davis MIND Institutes Toxicology Conference

This is not an IM post but a potential reason WHY we are needing so much IM. Click here to watch Dr.Stuart Freedenfeld, M   as he speaks in VERY people friendly terms in his presentation, Defending Your Child From a Toxic World. "The brain is particularly sensitive to toxic exposures during development.

IM during the Summer Months

Summer is a great time to complete IM training.  At IM Focused, summer IM training looks like a 'mini IM camp.'  

Brain works best when the rhythm is right.

New Stanford University research suggests that brain cells need to follow specific rhythms for proper brain functioning.  "A unifying theme here is that of brain rhythms," said Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD,  senior author of both papers. Like the cells that keep the beat of the heart, certain brain cells oscillate and guide cells in the brain.

10 yr old girl - One year later.

I saw this little girl last summer as a 9 yr old and recieved this letter from her mom today, the end of her first school year after IM. It was too much to add to my Data Spread Sheets so I just cut and pasted it here.

J--- has had a much better year this year at school.  As far as her gains from IM, these are the things I have noticed:

Lanuage disorders are slowed auditory processing - A Matter of TIME!

Paula Tallal from Rutgers University gives this great presentation on how timing is essential for language processing."Language impaired children have difficulty in both receiving and producing brief, rapidly successive signals, specifically in the tens of millisecond time range."

Body In Space Issues are Related Too

Body in Space Issues May be Related to Conscious and Subconscious processing: You learned your own body in space as a toddler, but you can get a feel for the concept of 'body in space' better if you remember what it felt like when you learned to drive. When you first went behind the wheel, you spent most of your energy just thinking about body in space issues - whether you were in the middle of your lane, where was the gas and the brake, did you have enough room to pass around that parked car, etc. The car became an extension of your body. Simple body in space awareness took your conscious thought.

Looking at Conscious and Sub Conscious Mental Processing

Dr. Catherine Fassbender discusses 3 important regions of the brain that must be connected to attend well. Without good connectivity between various regions of the brain, even simple tasks like driving can become too difficult.