Is your child living up to his/her potential?

At PowerBrain Rx, our personal brain training programs are designed to strengthen any cognitive skills that need it in order to maximize learning potential. We’ve spent nearly 10 years in Hong Kong researching, developing, and testing our cognitive training programs to address the root cause of learning difficulties or simply make strong brain skills even […]

How London cabbies are helping Alzheimer’s researchers

Becoming an official London cabbie is no small feat. To earn their “green badge,” they have to pass a difficult and comprehensive test of London’s 26,000 streets and the routes between them—which typically takes at least three years to complete. This intense study changes their brains: studies show that the hippocampus (a brain region closely […]

Brain “Drift”

The brain’s plasticity—its ability to change by constantly rewiring itself in response to new learning—is well established. But now scientists are finding that the brain may change even more than they thought. The general premise was that once neurons learned to represent something new—say, the smell of an apple—those neurons would remain roughly the same. […]

ADHD symptoms at different ages

Children and adults with ADHD often have trouble with: Focus Impulse control Managing emotions Memory Starting or finishing tasks It’s not always easy to spot ADHD symptoms. That’s partly because everyone acts in ways that can look like ADHD from time to time. That’s also because ADHD signs can look different at different ages. But children and […]