Drs. Fernettte & Brock E.'s Posts

Less is More: Smaller Corpus Callosum Correlates with Greater Divergent Thinking & Creativity -... by Drs. Fernettte & Brock E. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Interesting study from Harvard found that a smaller corpus callosum (bundle that connects the right and left hemispheres), especially the posterior part was associated with hi ... Read on »

Ipod Music Stimulates Alzheimers and Stroke Patients by Drs. Fernettte & Brock E. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Pretty cool finding. Music stimulates the memories and activities of stroke and Alzheimer's patients. From the WSJ: "Listening to rap and reggae on a borrowed iPod every ... Read on »

Battling Back Against Background Noise - Dyslexia, Auditory Training, and Music by Drs. Fernettte & Brock E. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Nina Kraus' lab at Northwestern reported findings that support dyslexics' greater difficulty hearing in background noise. From her powerpoints: As background noise increased, ... Read on »

Sensory Processing Online Webinar- Listen Online Now! by Drs. Fernettte & Brock E. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Wow! - the Eides went for 4 hrs talking about sensory processing disorder, its links to attention and emotional regulation, autism vs. autism-like behaviors, dyslexia and soci ... Read on »

Sensory Processing, Postural Sway, Anxiety - Better with Occupational Therapy by Drs. Fernettte & Brock E. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health ** Still Time to Register for our 2-Day Sensory Processing Webinar with Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide and Lindsey Biel ** DVDs of Conference Included with Conference Registrati ... Read on »

Sensory Processing, Postural Sway, Anxiety - Better with Occupational Therapy by Drs. Fernettte & Brock E. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health ** Last Day to Register for our 2-Day Sensory Processing Webinar with Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide and Lindsey Biel ** DVDs of Conference Included with Conference Registration ... Read on »

3 More Days to Register - Sensory Processing Online Conference by Drs. Fernettte & Brock E. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health On November 12 & 13th, Lindsey Biel, OTR/L (Raising a Sensory Smart Child) and Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide (The Mislabeled Child) and will be presenting a 5-Hour Live On ... Read on »

7 More Days to Register - Sensory Processing Online Conference by Drs. Fernettte & Brock E. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health On November 12 & 13th, Lindsey Biel, OTR/L (Sensory Smart Child) and Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide (The Mislabeled Child) and will be presenting a 5-Hour Live Online Webin ... Read on »

Lazy Thinkers and Dysrationalia by Drs. Fernettte & Brock E. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Pop Quiz: Jack is looking at Anne, but Anne is looking at George. Jack is married but George is not. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person? a. Yes b. No c. Can ... Read on »

Video Games Improve Night Vision by Drs. Fernettte & Brock E. Medical Doctor

1 Comment Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health As we grow older, there are many factors that contribute to our difficulty seeing in the dark. A few of the reasons include a reduction in pupil size, loss of accommodative fu ... Read on »

Visual and Dyslexic Thinking and Learning Styles and the Educational Controversies by Drs. Fernettte & Brock E. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health There's a lot of talk lately about 'Anti-Learning Styles' proponents like Daniel Willingham, a cognitive psychologist who says "cognitive psychologists know they (learnin ... Read on »

Sensory Processing and School Underachievement by Drs. Fernettte & Brock E. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Over the weekend, I was reading an article about students with disabilities in college, and I was struck by the conclusions that students with hidden disabilities had much poo ... Read on »

Dyslexic Molecular Biologist Carol Greider Wins 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine by Drs. Fernettte & Brock E. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health “It's going to be hard work whether you think it's fun or not, so you might as well have fun while you're doing the hard work.” - Carol Greider, PhD, 2009 Nobel Pr ... Read on »

Sensory Processing Disorders 2009 - Research Closing the Gap by Drs. Fernettte & Brock E. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Announcement: ** Sign Up is now Open** Eides/ Biel Sensory Processing Online Webinar Nov 12th & 13th 2009Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide and Lindsey Biel OTR/L Authors of Th ... Read on »

Watch How You Train Your Brain - Balancing Effects Between Right and Left by Drs. Fernettte & Brock E. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Interesting article about how researchers attempting to train teenage girls in a visualspatial task (Tetris) did see increases in cortical thickness in visualspatial areas, bu ... Read on »

Self-Appraisal - Teen Brains Reflect Opinions of Peers by Drs. Fernettte & Brock E. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Preteens and teens (11-14 yo) are more likely to activate 'social cognition' areas of the brain when reflecting about themselves ("I am smart", "I am popular&qu ... Read on »

Dyslexia Entrepreneur, Lawyer, Idealist Dov Seidman-Making Companies Ethical by Drs. Fernettte & Brock E. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health “By rewarding me for the careful consideration of one idea instead of reading hundreds of pages of text, philosophy helped me conquer dyslexia." - Dov Seidman, CEO ... Read on »

Multi-Tasking Dumbs Us Down for Some Jobs, But Could It Provide Breakthroughs for Others? by Drs. Fernettte & Brock E. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health "They're suckers for irrelevancy," said communication Professor Clifford Nass... "Everything distracts them." Because many in your acquaintance (or even h ... Read on »

Visual Overload and Visual Crowding - When More Means Less by Drs. Fernettte & Brock E. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health "If there were only 10 problems on a page, I could do them all. But when there are 40 on a page, I can't do any of them." - 10 year old student Visual overload and ... Read on »

Dyslexia and Autism are Opposites - Implications for Creativity, Late-Blooming / Precocity, and... by Drs. Fernettte & Brock E. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health s Structural studies from Michael Casanova and colleagues showed that the brains of dyslexic and autistic subjects had opposite findings. Microcolumns are repeating groups of ... Read on »

Drs. Fernettte & Brock E.

Posts

Related Articles

Wellsphere Info

Wellsphere Blogs