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Tips for Parents: Learning and the Brain

Colleen Willard-Holt, summarizing her online seminar, discusses the basics of the brain, including memory, the effects of stress, sleep-cycles and the nature vs. nurture argument. ...

Tips for Parents: The Gifted Brain & Learning: At Home and at School

Source: Davidson Young Scholar Seminars
Barbara Clark, Ed.D. provides ideas based on the findings from neuroscience studies that can help parents understand and nurture children whose behaviors and needs are significantly beyond those usually found with children in their age range. ...

Support Materials: Book Reviews

A Mind at a Time

BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - Are you interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the learning process? Then A Mind at a Time by Dr. Mel Levine is just the book you are looking for! Based on years of experience as a developmental-behavioral pediatrician and director of the Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning at the University of North Carolina Medical School, Dr. Levine has developed his own model that dissects the learning process into eight neurodevelopmental systems: attention control, memory, language, spat ...