Unlocking Learning Potential

Since all kinds of activities change the brain, as seen by brain mapping, cultured activities are no exception. “…the brain and genetics...

In our world of massive visual stimuli, weak auditory processing skills comprise a major contributing factor to learning difficulties. ...

Homeschooling Basics is an online mini course for those new to homeschooling and seeking to know more offered partnership with Multnomah...

Does your state require testing of some kind for homeschoolers? Do you want to know how well your children are learning? Do you want...

In Chapter 11, Dr. Doidge introduces us to Michelle Mack, a 29-year-old who was born with only the right hemisphere of her brain. At...

In this chapter, Doidge introduces us to ninety-year-old Dr. Stanley Karansky. After retiring at 70 years old, Karansky retrained himself...

Once I watched a recorded webinar given by Terri Noland, Vice President, Educator Initiatives of Learning Ally and hosted by EdWeb.com:...

In this chapter, Doidge introduces us to another eminent neuroscientist, Alvaro Pasqual-Leone. Pasqual-Leone, born in Valencia, Spain in...

Debbie and Richard Lawrence prepared this book, The Animal Kingdom, as a part of the God’s Design for Life for elementary aged...

In Chapter 7, Doidge introduces us to an M.D. whose specialty is neurology, but who also has a Ph.D. in psychology. Though from India,...

In this chapter, Doidge introduces us to the work of Jeffrey M. Schwartz: OCD – obsessive, compulsive disorder plagues individuals in...

“Stroke is a sudden, calamitous blow. The brain is punched out from within. A blood clot or bleed in the brain’s arteries cuts off oxygen...

Doidge explores neuroplasticity related to love and sex. “The brain structure that regulates instinctive behavior, including sex, called...

Redesigning the Brain - Part 3 Finally, we complete the review of this chapter: According the “localizationists” and those who believed...

Home educators must consider important questions regarding the issue of academic testing. Ask and answer these questions as you prepare...

Redesigning the Brain - Part 2 To continue our survey of the work of Michael Merzenich, PhD, Doidge tells of Merzenich’s next experiment....

Redesigning the Brain - Part 1 In this chapter, Doidge introduces Michael Merzenich to us. His work has produced a cochlear implant for...

The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, M.D. Chapter 1: A Woman Perpetually Falling…Rescued by the Man Who Discovered the...

n this chapter, Dr. Norman Doidge introduces us to a very interesting individual – an important piece in the quest to use neuroplasticity...

We now embark on another journey in Brain Research by reading through: The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, M.D. (Penquin...