by Helen Kain | ADHD, Anxiety, Attention Deficit Disorder, Changing our Minds, Disorders, Home, Mental Fitness, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries, The Mind
When most of us think about mental health, we ascribe its presence or absence largely to luck or having good genes. We vaguely (or actively) dread the onset of dementia or Alzheimer’s and cross our fingers it doesn’t happen to us. Well, there is a whole lot of good...
by Helen Kain | ADHD, Anxiety, Attention Deficit Disorder, Changing our Minds, Flourish, Flourishing, High Performance, Meditation, Mental Fitness, Mindfulness, Stress, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries
The Swedes have long had a name for children who bloom where they’re planted – whether in well-tended garden or a sidewalk crack – “dandelion children”. Thomas Boyd, a University of Arizona developmental psychologist and Bruce Ellis, a developmental pediatrician from...
by MAI Team | ADHD, Anxiety, Attention Deficit Disorder, Changing our Minds, Coaching, Conflict, Disorders, Emotional Intelligence, Flourish, Happiness, High Performance, Meditation, Mental Fitness, Mind/Body Connection, Strengths, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries
Attention seems an odd addition to the dimensions of Emotional Style as described by Richard Davidson in The Emotional Life of Your Brain, since we usually think of attention as a cognitive ability. A closer look, however, reveals that attention has both emotional and...
by MAI Team | ADHD, Aging, Anxiety, Attention Deficit Disorder, Education, Intelligence, Mental Fitness, Mind/Body Connection, Motivation, Physical Fitness, Physical Health, Resilience, Self Confidence, Stress
Students from Naperville, Illinois sure are smart. In 1999 Naperville’s District 203 eighth graders scored sixth in math and first in the world in science in an international standards test called the TIMSS (Trends In International Mathematics and Science...
