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OPTIMIZING YOUR BRAIN PERFORMANCE

Decades of research show that science-backed strategies improve brain health.
Learning and practicing behavior modification strategies through cognitive training can have a powerful effect on thinking, memory, attention and mood, improving quality of life and ability to adapt to circumstances. Open downloadable PDF
Strategic Memory Advanced Reasoning Tactics (SMART™) is our proprietary brain training methodology, developed and tested by Center for BrainHealth researchers and other teams over three decades.
Functional connectivity of regions associated with the Central Executive Network

Chapman, S. B., et al. “Neural Mechanisms of Brain Plasticity with Complex Cognitive Training in Healthy Seniors.” Cerebral Cortex, vol. 25, no. 2, 2013, pp. 396–405., doi:10.1093/cercor/bht234.12

Chapman, S. B., et al. “Neural Mechanisms of Brain Plasticity With Complex Cognitive Training in Healthy Seniors.” Cerebral Cortex, vol. 25, no. 2, 2013, pp. 396–405., doi:10.1093/cercor/bht234.12

Making Measurable Improvements in Brain Health

  • Increasing global blood flow to the brain.
  • Forging new connections, and strengthen positive or weaken negative ones.
  • Building cortical thickness in regions such as the frontal and parietal cortices.
  • Reducing age-related brain shrinkage.
  • Improving connective wiring, renovating “insulation” of the long, extended fibers connecting brain cells.
  • Achieving fundamental change in brain networks, cells and molecules, including modification of gene expression.
SMART is a neuroscience-based cognitive training program facilitating top-down metacognitive strategies designed to strengthen prefrontal guidance of goal-relevant cognitive operations as opposed to a bottom-up approach of verbatim processing of details. Strategies promote deeper understanding of information encountered in everyday life.
*Our SMART methodology provides the building blocks for individual and group brain training programs.

published evidence for SMART (2010-2025)

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