THE GET SHARP INTENSIVE TRAINING PROGRAM

With this option, you will employ ALL of the brain training tools and assistance available in our center in a series of carefully designed steps:

1. You will start the Get Sharp Intensive Training Program with a quantitative EEG brain map that will reveal the patterns of activation and communication in your brain.

2. Next, you will participate in a thorough neuropsychological assessment of all critical areas of mental functioning, and a review of the patterns of stress in your life and of any stress-related difficulties you may have.

3. You will meet with our staff nutrition counselor to conduct a review of your eating habits and nutritional status and develop an individualized plan to help you eat right to stay sharp.

4. With all this information about your brain and cognitive function, you will sit down with one of our psychologists and combine these two rich sources of information to understand the relationship between the patterns of brain activity shown in your brain map and your specific profile of mental strengths and weaknesses. This will allow you to develop and fine tune a personalized mental fitness training plan. You can then begin your intensive training period with visits to our state of the art NEUROCOGNITIVE TRAINING CENTER two to four times weekly for six months. Each mental fitness training plan will incorporate:

5. A systematic and carefully targeted program of computerized cognitive exercise with the Mindfit cognitive exercise software. This can be done both in our center and at home so that you can train as frequently as you like.

6. You will also employ EEG guided brain training in our center. With this form of training, also called neurofeedback, EEG biofeedback, or neurotherapy, you employ advanced brain imaging technology to show you, in a way that you can easily understand, your brain at work. You see changes on the screen milliseconds after they occur in your brain, and hear computer tones to signal the change the moment you succeed altering your brain in the direction of improved fitness and function. This instantaneous information helps you gain increasing control and mastery in order to attain the goals set out in your mental fitness training plan.

7. As you train, you will use our online progress tracking system to communicate to our staff the effects of the training that you notice in your everyday life. This tracking system allows you, your coach, and the consulting psychologist to maintain a very careful record of the results of the training.

8. During your intensive training period, you will meet with your assigned mental fitness coach every other week to review your progress and fine tune your program.

9. You will participate in our series of workshops on mental fitness.

10. At the mid-point of your intensive training program, you will meet with our psychologist for a second consultation.

11. After six months of intensive training, you will repeat the neuropsychological testing to measure your progress.

12. Significant improvement in your mental fitness is guaranteed. If you have not yet achieved significant improvement in your functioning as measured by these tests, continued participation in the get Sharp Program is free until you do.

13. Once you have reached the level of fitness you desire, you have the option of entering the Stay Sharp Program to maintain that level of fitness over the longer term.