# Endurance # Patience # Problem solve # Finding YOU # Grateful Endurance is a beautiful word. I recently...
Motivation: Just Do It..Plus
admin, , Helping Parents, adolescent, child, cognitive, discipline, Dorso lateral Prefrontal Cortex, emotion, focus, frustration tolerance, learning, mani pavuluri, medial prefrontal cortex, Motivation, nucleus accumbens, Orbito frontal cortex!, resilience, reward, stress, 0# Motivation # Success # Just Do It # Inherent Rewards # Real Life # Digital Stuck? Stuck to...
Scaffolding Conversations: Verbal Comprehension and Expression
admin, , Helping Parents, adolescent, Auditory cortex, brain, brain function, child, executive function, learning, mani pavuluri, problem solving, Scaffolding, verbal comprehension, verbal expression, verbal language, 2# Children # Verbal Comprehension # Verbal Expression # Language Use # Parents Scaffolding # Conversation Oh well, lot...
The “It” and Executive Function
admin, , Helping Parents, adolescent, art of living, brain, child, cognitive, conduct, discipline, domain, executive function, flexibility, forward planning, frustration tolerance, information processing, learning, mani pavuluri, problem solving, stress, 2#Flexibility#Planning#Information-Processing#Problem-Solving One summer, a graduate student from overseas came to work as an extern in my lab. She ran...
Knee Jerk Reaction: Brain’s Non-Reflective Response
admin, , Explaining Brain, adolescent, amygdala, art of living, awareness, bipolar disorder, brain, brain function, child, cognitive, conduct, discipline, emotion, executive function, feeling, frustration tolerance, learning, mani pavuluri, problem solving, stress, teacher, teen, thinking, ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, 0Have you heard of the expressions like- oh he has the brain in the knee, knee jerk reaction or...
Concentration: Is the Problem Real?
admin, , Helping Teachers, adolescent, attention, brain function, child, cognitive, concentration, emotion, focus, frustration tolerance, learning, mani pavuluri, Motivation, problem solving, resilience, sensorimotor integration, stress, teacher, teen, thinking, ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, 0Often at school and home alike, we see children perform variably across tasks. Countless times, teachers and parents ask...
Story Telling: The Power of Talk
admin, , Helping Parents, adolescent, child, communication, conversation, executive function, language, learning, mani pavuluri, sentence construction, social skills, story telling, talking, 2Story telling is an art. Being able to communicate with the beauty of words put to good use is...
Prefrontal Cortex: CEOs of Emotion and Cognition
admin, , Explaining Brain, adolescent, amygdala, bipolar disorder, brain, brain function, child, cognitive, domain, Dorsolateral PFC, emotion, executive function, learning, mani pavuluri, medial prefrontal cortex, Orbitofrontal Cortex, thinking, Ventrolateral PFC, whole brain networks, 2When I think of multiple CEOs of prefrontal cortex (PFC): I think of multiple C level executives of Caterpillar...
Amygdala and Emotions
admin, , Explaining Brain, adolescent, amygdala, bipolar disorder, brain, brain function, child, cognitive, domain, emotion, feeling, frustration tolerance, learning, mani pavuluri, stress, teen, 2I was delivering a speech in University of Athens, Athens, Greece. I was describing that amygdala is the size...
Domino Effect of Bullying at School
admin, , Helping Teachers, adolescent, bullying, child, conduct, defend, emotion, friends, learning, mani pavuluri, resilience, school, self esteem, skills, social skills, stress, 2What is often not noted in school is the ripple effect of bullying. Especially in a therapeutic school, but...