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Archive: Brain Development & Juggling
Juggling Good for the Brain, Study Shows
Mastering the skill increases the amount of grey matter in areas of the brain that process and store visual information, proving what was not thought possible -- that new stimuli can alter the brain's structure. more...
Juggling Increases Brain Power
The scientists studied a group of 24 healthy young adults, none of whom could juggle.
They divided them into two groups. One of the groups was given weekly training sessions in juggling for six weeks and was asked to practice 30 minutes every day the other 12 continued as normal. more...
Teachers Link Juggling to Improved Academic Skills
Some school districts have found that teaching students to juggle real objects improves not only their coordination but their academic performance and behavior as well. In fact, juggling increases students' ability to concentrate, enhances their eye-hand coordination, and more...
Archive: Rhythmic Movement Training
Literacy Skills & Rhythmic Movement Training Control Study
Brain Fitness Strategies performed a controlled study using Rhythmic Movement Training on a group of five students with learning disabilities in a public school. The students received an average of one 40-minute session per week of RMT from October 2009 through May 2010. more...
Rhythmic Movement Training (RMT)
Rhythmic Movement Training (RMT) is based on the developmental movements that infants make in their first year. Dr. Harald Blomberg, a Swedish psychiatrist, developed RMT over 25 years ago and has been using it successfully to treat people with learning disabilities and developmental disabilities in Europe ever since. more...
Integrating Primitive Reflexes
Primitive (infant) Reflexes are repetitive, automatic movements that are essential for development of head control, muscle tone, sensory integration and development. They form the basis of our postural, lifelong reflexes. These primitive reflexes surface in utero and infancy and become inhibited as the movements do their job and movements become more practiced and controlled. more...
What is Rhythmic Movement Training?
RMT works with integrating the retained, or underdeveloped, infant reflexes that are involved in learning challenges such as ADD/ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, writing problems, focussing and comprehension challenges, co-ordination difficulties and Asperger's Syndrome. more...