As part of our ongo­ing mar­ket research we’d like to ask past and cur­rent users of Houghton Mif­flin prod­ucts to share their expe­ri­ence with us via this 3-question anony­mous sur­vey. Read the rest of this entry »

As part of our ongo­ing mar­ket research we’d like to ask past and cur­rent users of Posit Sci­ence prod­ucts to share their expe­ri­ence with us via this 3-question anony­mous sur­vey.  Read the rest of this entry »

As part of our ongo­ing mar­ket research we’d like to ask past and cur­rent users of HAP­PYneu­ron prod­ucts to share their expe­ri­ence with us via this 3-question anony­mous sur­vey.  Read the rest of this entry »

As part of our ongo­ing mar­ket research we’d like to ask past and cur­rent users of Viv­ity Labs prod­ucts to share their expe­ri­ence with us via this 3-question anony­mous sur­vey. Read the rest of this entry »

As part of our ongo­ing mar­ket research we’d like to ask past and cur­rent users of Learn­ing Enhance­ment Cor­po­ra­tion prod­ucts to share their expe­ri­ence with us via this 3-question anony­mous sur­vey.  Read the rest of this entry »

As part of our ongo­ing mar­ket research we’d like to ask past and cur­rent users of Dakim prod­ucts to share their expe­ri­ence with us via this 3-question anony­mous sur­vey. Read the rest of this entry »

As part of our ongo­ing mar­ket research we’d like to ask past and cur­rent users of Lumos Labs prod­ucts to share their expe­ri­ence with us via this 3-question anony­mous sur­vey. Please take this sur­vey if you have used a Lumos Labs prod­uct your­self or have seen some­one else use it. Read the rest of this entry »

As part of our ongo­ing mar­ket research we’d like to ask past and cur­rent users of Cogmed prod­ucts to share their expe­ri­ence with us via this 3-question anony­mous sur­vey. Read the rest of this entry »

(Editor’s note: below you have part 4 of the 6-part The Neu­ro­bi­ol­ogy of Stress series. If you are join­ing the series now, you can read the pre­vi­ous part Here.)

Stayin’  Alive

THE STRESS RESPONSE EXPLAINED

Stress was put on the map, so to speak, by a Hun­gar­ian — born Cana­dian endocri­nol­o­gist named Hans Hugo Bruno Selye (ZEL — yeh) in 1950, when he pre­sented his research on rats at the annual con­ven­tion of the Amer­i­can Psy­cho­log­i­cal Asso­ci­a­tion. To explain the impact of stress, Selye pro­posed some­thing he called the Gen­eral Adap­ta­tion Syn­drome (GAS), which he said had three com­po­nents. Accord­ing to Selye, when an organ­ism expe­ri­ences some novel or threat­en­ing stim­u­lus it responds with an alarm reac­tion. This is fol­lowed by what Selye referred to as the recov­ery or resis­tance stage, a period of time dur­ing which the brain repairs itself and stores the energy it will need to deal with the next stress­ful event.

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Very inter­est­ing new study pub­lished in Psy­cho­log­i­cal Sci­ence: Short-Term Music Train­ing Enhances Ver­bal Intel­li­gence and Exec­u­tive Func­tion.

Abstract: Researchers have designed train­ing meth­ods that can be used to improve men­tal health and to test the effi­cacy of edu­ca­tion pro­grams. How­ever, few stud­ies have demon­strated broad trans­fer from such train­ing to per­for­mance on untrained cog­ni­tive activ­i­ties. Here we report the effects of two inter­ac­tive com­put­er­ized train­ing pro­grams devel­oped for preschool chil­dren: one for music and one for visual art. After only 20 days of train­ing, Read the rest of this entry »