Brain Training Goes Online

On June 11-12, as representatives from IBREA, my colleague and I attended the 5th Annual Games for Health conference in Boston. This conference explores how game technologies and talent can contribute to breakthroughs in health & healthcare.

Game-based solutions are already providing compelling means to increase physical activity, advance personal health, improve hospital operations, train healthcare providers, and advocate important healthcare information.

This year, the conference included a Cognitive Health track. Developers, researchers, and retailers of Brain Fitness on-line training programs were on hand to share their experience in this growing field.

Conference participants heard about an innovative partnership between Allstate insurance and PositScience, a cognitive training company, to provide online cognitive training for safer driving; about a new retail store in the Chicago area selling brain products; about online cognitive training options for ADHD, Schizophrenia, and Multiple Sclerosis; and about current and planned research on online brain fitness programs and the effects of these programs in different populations.


This community recognizes the importance of the brain and based on research, sees the possibilities and importance of training the brain in order to improve health and well-being. They also recognize the importance of including on-line and mobile technology platforms as options for accessing information and training about the brain.

Brain Education programs have traditionally been offered in community settings. Now, people who are unable to attend Brain Education training programs because there may not be a physical location in their community or in their country, will be able to access training online.

IBREA will also be adding cognitive, emotional, and physical health brain-related assessments and training and certification courses for Brain Management Consultants on-line. Stay tuned for more soon!

Boost Your Brain Power

Tips on using your brain well that are based on research on how our brains function best. This online article on Sympatico/MSN summarizes 12 tips from molecular biologist Dr. John Medina's book Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School.

http://zoomer.sympatico.msn.ca/Boot+camp+for+the+brain/Home/boot-camp-brain.htm?isfa=1

Brain Education for Children Seminar at the UN

On Thursday, May 28th from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m., the IBREA Foundation hosted a seminar at the United Nations in Conference Room A on Brain Education for Children. UN Staff, representatives of Permanent Missions (including Tanzania, El Salvador, Ukraine, and Mongolia) and agencies (UNICEF), and representatives of non-governmental organizations attended.

Mr. Modest Mero from the Tanzanian Mission opened the seminar by stating his support of efforts to increase awareness about the brain at the United Nations and about Brain Education as a method to develop potential in children and adults, particularly in developing countries around the world.

The seminar included presentations by Dr. Marylu Coviello, a former superintendent and principal on the Need for an Alternative Approach to Education, Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg on Executive Functions in Children, Dr. Erica Kovacs, a clinical psychologist, about Emotional Development in Children, and by IBREA Foundation representatives Dr. Passion Jun and Pedaetrician, Dr. Maryana Winston on the Principles and 5 steps of Brain Education.

The seminar ended with an informational and experiental session led by IBREA representatives and Brain Education instructors Katie Brisley-Logue and Yu-jung Lim on the upcoming HSP Brain Olympiad to be held August 12th at the United Nations in commemoration of International Youth Day. The seminar participants learned about how children and adults can participate in the event, which creates awareness about brain potential.

The Brain Alliance Inititiative was also announced. The initiative is made up of members of the UN community, scientists, educators, and advocates of Brain Education who want to work together to create greater awareness within the UN community about the importance of the brain and using it well to promote health, well-being and peacefulness.

Brain Education Center for Peace and Human Development

I have spent this semester mostly in New York at the IBREA office and Brain Education Center.

The Brain Education Center for Peace and Human Development offers Brain Education classes, special programs and Neurofeedback for those who live and work in the area and for the UN community. Open lunch time classes are available for UN staff for an initial period and discounts are available for UN staff, their family members, retired staff, and NGO representatives.

The center is meant to be a place where members can relieve stress, replenish their energy, and gain tools to help themselves and others be healthy, happy, and peaceful.

Members of the UN community are also looking for practical tools to help support the health, education, and environmental goals in their own country and globally. Through Brain Education programs, they are realizing the link between individual health and well-being and the well-being of their families, neighbours, fellow Earth Citizens, and the Earth herself.


Currently, many UN staff from various missions (including India, Comoros, and Djibouti), departments, and agencies (such as UNICEF) come to the Center.

The center has held Brain Wave Vibration instructor training for members of the UN community to learn how to teach Brain Education in their workplace or community.

In April, Chun Hwa Shim Sung (Self-Discovery) workshop was held at Honor's Haven in Upstate New York and will be held again June 13-14th.

Currently, the center is offering Brain Education for Enhanced Learning class for children, in preparation for the Olympiad August 12th, which will again be held at the United Nations in commemoration of International Youth Day.

If you are in Manhattan, be sure to stop by the Brain Education Center for a visit! The center is located in Manhattan at East 49th Street betwen 1st and 2nd Avenue. Telephone: 212-223-7130.