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Eide Neurolearning Blog

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All things Neurolearning - learning strategies, learning differences, brain research, teaching tips, and specific information for dyslexia, underachievement, visual thinkers, dysgraphia, add/adhd, attention, sensory processing, visual processing disorders, auditory processing disorders, CAPD, prematurity, adoption, and more.

• Added on: Dec 31st, 2004
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Listed in: Education Family Development and Growth
• Tags: math brain dyslexia fmri gifted visual processing

Recent Posts

• Reading in the Brain and Mirror Writing

  Posted on Monday December 7th, 2009 at 02:01 in reading, dyslexia, mixed dominance, "spatial talent", "spatial thinking", "mirrored reversals"

  Stanislaus Dehaene has a new book entitled Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention and he has been kind enough to publish chapter summaries and all color figures here.From Chapter 7, a discussion of how mirror reading is ...

• Orchid Kids: The Positives of Intense and Demanding Children

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 02:01 in add, adhd, attention, spd, intensity, gifted, temperament, 2e, "sensory processing", "social and emotional"

  "Themistocles was an unruly boy, and carried on his mad pranks without much restraint. When taken to task for them he said, "The wildest colts make the best horses when they come to be properly trained." - Plutarch (46-120 AD)Interesting article The ...

• Famous People with Dyslexia: Dyslexic Heart Surgeon, Inventor, CEO, Toby Cosgrove M.D.

  Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 16:40 in business, inventors, "spatial talent"

  "We're not very good at the scholastic stuff, but we see other things that are different, and that's a big advantage." - Toby Cosgrove, M.D., CEO Cleveland ClinicsFrom Leadership Powerhouse:"Cosgrove, an international legend in cardio thoracic surger...

• Less is More: Smaller Corpus Callosum Correlates with Greater Divergent Thinking & Creativity - Dyslexia, ADHD Anyone?

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 02:01 in creativity, adhd, brain, dyslexia, interhemispheric, "gifted dyslexics", "divergent thinking"

  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 higher levels of creativity on the Torrance Figural Creativity test. The latt...

• Ipod Music Stimulates Alzheimers and Stroke Patients

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 00:51 in music, language, memory, alzheimers, speech, stroke, "personal memory"

  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 day has helped Everett Dixon, a 28-year-old stroke victim at Beth Abraham Health ...

• Ipod Music Stimulates Alzheimers and Stroke Patients

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 00:49 in music, language, memory, alzheimers, speech, stroke, "personal memory"

  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 day has helped Everett Dixon, a 28-year-old stroke victim at Beth Abraham Health ...

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