Life is a Highway: A Brain Highway

OK that was corny, but it's becoming really difficult to make up witty titles every week.

This week is different than all my other weeks! Yay! Anyway a woman named Betty Lamont is staying with my Aunt and Uncle in L.A.. She is main driving force behind neuro-developmental reorganization in the US and is in L.A. to give a couple talks and do assessments of different families. So this week instead of working in my Aunt's office I've been following Betty around, she's a great person work with because she walks through things and really takes the time to explain what and why parts to me. She's helping me look over the bare-bones parts of my essay and PowerPoint and is helping highlight points that I want to talk about. Tomorrow morning she's doing an assessment here at the house that she'll walk me through which is very exciting.

Other exciting things (or not so exciting depending on how you view it) is that the show private practice is filming down the street. Now you might be wondering how this pertains to my project: simple, because it's a show based on medicine they have a doctor on staff to check things. When he saw me lugging around a copy of "Gray's Anatomy" he asked if I was in med school and he ended up giving me the names of several neuro books to look up. Not to mention it's just cool to have a film crew take over the neighborhood.

Other than that my week at Brainhighways was pretty much the same. The only change is that you can really see improvement in some of the kids: from how they interact with each other to their level of attentiveness when hearing directions. We had a separate meeting with the parents where a lot of them talked about changes they're seeing in their kids which for many is life changing. There are still some parents that I wish we could make do the program before they're allowed to enroll their kids because they simply have no control over their emotions. But c'est la vie.

Dr. Rising I'm sorry I can't post pictures, but I can't post pictures of the kids without getting permission from the parents and there isn't much else to photograph. But my posts have less math and science!

Until next week.