On Track Brain Training

07/11/2025

Your prefrontal cortex is your brain’s mirror — helping you reflect, regulate, and grow. Self-awareness strengthens emotional balance, empathy, and decision-making — skills that evolve with every moment of mindful reflection.


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05/11/2025

Your hippocampus is your brain’s storyteller — weaving experience into memory and meaning. Keep it healthy with learning, sleep, movement, and emotional connection. Every new experience helps your brain grow new stories.


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03/11/2025

Executive function is the brain’s management system — guiding focus, planning, and emotional control. It relies on strong integration between the prefrontal cortex, limbic system, and sensory networks to stay balanced and adaptable. When these systems work together, we can pause, think, and choose wisely under pressure. Strengthening executive function builds resilience, flexibility, and clarity in everyday life.


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31/10/2025

Core capabilities sit at the intersection of neuroscience and everyday life. They represent the brain’s ability to integrate emotion, memory, and thought into purposeful action. Core capabilities are the foundational brain-based skills that allow us to manage our thoughts, emotions, and actions in a goal-directed way. By supporting these systems early — and reinforcing them throughout life — we lay the groundwork for healthier regulation, stronger executive function, and greater mental flexibility.


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31/10/2025

Problem-solving is more than just finding answers — it’s how the brain learns to adapt, plan, and stay calm under pressure. For children and adolescents, this ability grows as the prefrontal cortex—the brain’s “thinking hub”—develops and strengthens its connections with emotional centers like the amygdala. When young people encounter challenges, their brain activates circuits that manage attention, flexibility, emotional regulation, and working memory. Through practice, reflection, and supportive environments, these neural pathways become more efficient—helping them think before reacting, evaluate options, and persist through frustration.


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29/10/2025

In children and adolescents, decision-making opportunities (e.g., choosing learning strategies or problem-solving independently) enhance executive function development and academic outcomes. In adults, reflective practices like journaling reinforce prefrontal circuits involved in self-control and resilience. Each decision is a mini-workout for the brain’s executive system. By making thoughtful choices, we strengthen neural circuits in the prefrontal cortex, improving our ability to plan, regulate emotions, and adapt under pressure.


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28/10/2025

Preschoolers are learning how to manage big feelings, handle “no,” and solve problems with friends — all important steps in building emotional control. By modelling calm behaviour and guiding children through disappointment or conflict, parents help strengthen brain pathways for self-regulation, resilience, and social success.


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27/10/2025

Integrating music into dementia care is not merely an activity but a targeted, evidence-based approach that nurtures neural health, enhances emotional wellbeing, and sustains personhood through the power of rhythm and memory.


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27/10/2025

Chronic stress rewires the developing brain for survival, not reflection. Safe, supportive environments help shift young people from fight-or-flight to focus, planning, and emotional control. Calm builds capacity — connection builds core life skills.


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25/10/2025

The adolescent brain thrives in environments of respect and connection. When young people contribute meaningfully, their brains release reward chemicals that reinforce focus, drive, and belonging. Purpose transforms effort into growth.


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24/10/2025

Repetition isn’t about doing the same thing over and over — it’s about creating safe patterns where the brain can thrive. Every smile shared, every song replayed, every daily ritual becomes a thread in the fabric of stability and hope. In dementia care, these moments of repetition become more than memory work — they become relationship work. Through gentle consistency and meaningful engagement, we help the brain, and the person, stay connected to who they are.


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23/10/2025

Did you know that our brains are wired to connect? For those living with dementia, meaningful social interactions offer more than comfort—they offer brain support. Research shows that staying socially engaged can help maintain cognitive function, emotional health and overall wellbeing.


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