[Event] Early ChildHood Education Expo 2015

ECEE stage program:

"How to train your brain like a muscle"

By SOL Integrative Wellness Centre.

ECEE at Setia City Convention Center (SCCC) on 15th and 16th August 2015. This Event is open to public and free admission to the Expo from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm. This platform will showcase range of preschools, including international schools, Islamic preschools, kindergartens, enrichment centers, education products, health and baby products.

How to get smarter?
If you’re an athlete preparing for a race, you have to work on two levels. First you have to take care of the basics – getting enough sleep, regular maintenance exercise, a healthy diet. In the same way, optimal performance for your brain requires the same attention to sleep, exercise, and diet.

If you want to perform your best, physically or mentally, you need to go beyond the basics. You need to build your brain’s strength, flexibility, and endurance: your cognitive ability. There are a variety of tools and techniques that can help, and one of the most effective is EEG biofeedback.

What Luis, Kayla, Madeline, and Brandon did is possible for anyone who can respond to feedback. Our brains learn. It’s what they were designed to do. Our brains can learn not only facts, but also how to focus, and how to process information more efficiently and easily. That is what makes you smart.

Source:

http://patch.com/california/berkeley/can-neurofeedback-make-you-smarter

[Event] Walk for Autism 2015

I will be there, how about you?

We will offer a brain assessment session FOR FREE during Walk for Autism 2015, at Citta Mall. Come and join us!

Anyone who makes a donation of RM40 can participate in the Walk and be entitled to the T-shirt which they are required to wear on the day of the walk. All donations will be issued a tax exempt receipt. Detail of the event as follows: Walk for Autism 2015, Sunday, August 16th at 7.00 AM, Venue: Citta Mall, Ara Damansara in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

For more information or to register, kindly email your name, T-shirt size and proof of payment to [email protected] or [email protected].

Payment details are as follows:
NAME : THE NATIONAL AUTISM SOCIETY OF MALAYSIA
BANK: CIMB BANK
ACCOUNT NO: 860 054 9806

Source:

http://www.nasom.org.my/event/walk-for-autism-2015/

Improving sleep and cognition by clinical hypnotherapy in the elderly

Sleep quality markedly declines across the human lifespan. Particularly the amount of slow-wave sleep (SWS) decreases with age and this decrease is paralleled by a loss of cognitive functioning in the elderly. Here we show in healthy elderly females that the amount of SWS can be extended by a hypnotic suggestion "to sleep deeper" before sleep. In a placebo-controlled cross-over design, participants listened to hypnotic suggestions or a control tape before a midday nap while high density electroencephalography was recorded. After the hypnotic suggestion, we observed a 57% increase in SWS in females suggestible to hypnosis as compared to the control condition. 

Furthermore, left frontal slow-wave activity (SWA), characteristic for SWS, was significantly increased, followed by a significant improvement in prefrontal cognitive functioning after sleep. 

Our results suggest that hypnotic suggestions might be a successful alternative for widely-used sleep-enhancing medication to extend SWS and improve cognition in the elderly.


Source:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/25660206/