Science Buddies: "Ask an Expert"

What is brain gym? Does it really work. I can not find any scientific studies that say brain gym increases cognitive function in an average classroom. Does anyone know any studies on brain gym or has ever done brain gym before and have an opinion?

Thanks so much

There are some references in the Wikipedia article at this URL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_gym

Hi kevala!

I have done a few in-depth searches and have not found any experiments which appear to be scientifically rigorous and fully unbiased- a discussion of this can be found in this paper, and a few other sources can also be found at the bottom of the article. Many of these sources can also be found in the Wikipedia article, as mentioned by John Dreher above.

However, I haven't had the time to do a complete search- you could try checking at this site for scientific articles, as a Google search seems to return mostly unreliable, commercial articles and sites. If I find anything further, I'll post it here.

Good luck with this project!
Vysarge

Hi

You can go to http://braingym.org/studies for their research studies. Also, I have done numerous studies in the business arena using Brain Gym. You can go to http://www.teplitz.com/BrainGymResearch.htm.

Thank you soooo much!