Thanks to the Vision Help group for their new video on the Impact of Concussion on Vision.
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Tip #1: Vision Is Our Dominant Sense
Vision engages much of the brain. So training your vision is training your brain, not your eyeballs. Athletes at the top of their game have improved their vision by training.
This Is How Your Brain Ages
Thanks to Dr. Dom Maino for sharing this site. Simple, yet quite informative! It’s never too late to help yourself! Presented by: Term Life Insurance Resource By Dr. Lynn Hellerstein, Colorado Optometrist in Vision Therapy, Hellerstein & Brenner Vision Center, PC
New Brain Injury Law to Protect Young Athletes in CO
This hard-won piece of legislation will keep our CO youth athletes safe for the years to come. It requires that coaches get education on how to recognize a concussion, that a player is removed from play if a concussion is suspected and that the student athlete must be signed off by a medical professional before […]
Oliver Sacks MD- More Stories on Vision
Thanks to my friends and colleagues, Dr. Dom Maino & Len Press. They have posted addition information regarding Oliver Sacks’ new Book, The Mind’s Eye. The podcast below features neurologist Oliver Sacks. Dr. Sacks tells stories of people who manage to navigate the world and communicate, despite losing what many consider indispensable senses and abilities: […]
No Brain Left Behind
The next Learning and the Brain Conference takes place in Boston in Nov, 2010. I attended the Feb. 2010 conference. It was fascinating…a mix of researchers, therapists, teachers and physicians. Much of the research presented only confirmed the work we have been doing for more than 30 years in vision therapy. Many of the recommended […]
The Visuality of Reading Part II
Dr. Press continues in his blog about the Visuality of Reading. He quotes Dr. Oliver Sachs, neurologist & author of forthcoming book, The Mind’s Eye, “We normally think of reading as a seamless, indivisible act … reading in fact involves a number of separate processes and stages from basic perceptual processes to higher level abilities […]
The Visuality of Reading
Dr. Len Press, my esteemed colleague, writes in his blog about Oliver Sach’s latest “A Neurologist Notebook” piece in the New Yorker Magazine (June 28, 2010). Per Dr. Press’ blog: “Oliver Sacks, a neurologist and man of letters, is well-known to the vision community through his essays in The New Yorker Magazine. Oliver’s depiction of […]
Wii Technology Helps Brain Injuries
Neuroplasticity research shows that brain cells can sprout new neurons after brain injury-even with adults. Vision rehabilitation, provided by optometrists trained in Vision Therapy, have been successfully treating the visual consequences after brain injury. Visual symptoms include: Difficulty with reading, blurred vision, double vision, visual spatial and balance difficulties, poor eye-hand coordination, decreased visual memory. […]
Learning & the Brain Research-Join Me
Many of you have requested information regarding the Learning & the Brain Conference that I attended in Feb. 2010 in San Francisco. This is a national interdisciplinary scientific and education conference that attempts to bring together some of the latest research on education. Next year’s conference is in Cambridge, MA Nov 19-21. Bottom line, when one of […]