Brain Works Training Makes Learning Faster

College students are discovering how brain training can provide better memory, focus, comprehension and written expression and spend less time studying.

Most successful college students endure hours of intense study to grasp the endless stream of information that awaits them on a daily basis. Common methods for developing a better memory, such as repetition and mneumonic devices, are cumbersome and use up the one commodity of which college students always need more: time.

Time scarcity often results in stress, anxiety, and depression. For the serious student, relationships often have to be sacrificed for the sake of maintaining a competitive GPA. This kind of isolation and pressure not only leads to unhealthy thinking, but it changes the college experience from something that should be fun and exciting and turns it into a burden.

Fortunately, more and more college students are discovering how brain training can provide better memory, focus, comprehension and written expression, and in turn, reduce the amount of time that they need to spend studying.

Research has proven that throughout our lives, our brains change based on our thoughts and activities. The science of the brain is called neuroscience, and the ability of the brain to change and grow is called brain plasticity.

Brain plasticity describes the brain’s ability to reorganize neural pathways. This reorganization occurs whenever we have a new experience, learn a new skill, or memorize a new fact. In order to retain that information, a persistent change which represents that new information must take place within the brain.

Brain Training enables you to take advantage of this plasticity, thereby achieving faster learning and more productivity in your academic pursuits. Here’s how it works…

What is Brain Training?

During a typical brain training session, clients listen to classical auditory training music with only specific frequencies playing – other frequencies are blocked or filtered out.  Sound waves or frequencies go into the ear, through the vestibular and auditory nerves to the brain, and stimulate brain activity. Depending on whether low, middle or high frequencies are heard, different areas of the brain are stimulated. By repeating the sound stimulation 3 to 5 days a week, the brain responds by growing new neural pathways that enrich various regions of the brain and makes stronger connections among them.

For example, the visual or occipital lobe of the brain may become stimulated with the music’s frequencies better eye tracking (reading), visual perception (notes on white board), visual attention (length of reading time) and visual memory (illustrations, demonstrations and reading).

When listened to in isolation or band widths, the musical frequencies used for brain and auditory training help with the following:

    Low Frequencies                 Middle Frequencies               High Frequencies
Balance & Coordination          Visual & Auditory Memory         Executive Functioning
Visual Motor Skills                   Focus/Attention Span                Mental Clarity
Visual Perception                    Listening Comprehension         Decision Making
Sensory Integration

 

College students are intelligent people. However, it is common for students to have a glitch that holds them back from studying or learning as efficiently that they would like. All it takes is a single gap in one’s ability to comprehend verbal or written material, stay focused, remember visual or verbal information, process information quickly or write papers to cause longer study hours and a feeling of frustration.

We try to involve two skill sets at once because neurons that fire together, wire together. The brain becomes far more flexible when it uses several different skills at the same time.

The most fundamental skills that contribute to our ability to learn are

• Visual processing
• Auditory processing
• Sensory integration
• Memory
• Attention span
• Movement

The centers for these foundational skills are found in various parts of the brain. It is important for the brain cells in each area to form pathways that connect with other regions of the brain. With good connections, the brain regions can work as a team.

We offer many options, from personally supervised sessions to at-home programs designed for personal use.  Contact us for a free consultation, and we’ll help you find the training program that’s right for you.

How can I be sure this stuff works?

If you still aren’t sure if this is right for you, take a look at these success stories from clients who obtained better memory through brain training:

A doctor participated in a home brain training program to increasing his memory. He was amazed at his fast improvement in both visual and auditory memory. Not only did his scores improve rapidly, but he was surprised to notice almost immediate improvement in his hand-eye coordination.

Gloria was forgetful and had difficulty focusing in a conversation. She didn’t always use proper grammer and she often fell asleep while studying for a course. Since she was studying to be a realtor, it was imperative that she be able to listen and speak well. Early in the auditory training program, she noticed that she could go into the grocery store and remember everything she went there to buy. She was able to do her schoolwork without getting tired. And later, she saw a marked improvement in her ability to focus on a conversation. Her speech improved, as did her ability to organize and express her thoughts. “The words just flowed out.”

“Upon returning to school at age 60, I realized I needed to sharpen my brain skills for learning and memorizing medical information, specifically anatomy and physiology. After several weeks of Brain Training with cognitive computer programs at Brain Works and an auditory program at home, my ability to understand concepts and retain information greatly improved. To my delight, my speed of reading also increased, which helped me to learn more information, faster.” – V.O.

What’s the next step?

Please contact us for a consultation to find out how you can get a better memory, and a better college experience.