| The right brain controls the left side of the body and | | | | seeing different colors, attention exercises involving |
| the left brain controls the right side of the body. The | | | | timing, seeing unfamiliar faces, and meeting someone |
| right brain is the more creative or emotional | | | | new also stimulate the right brain.. |
| hemisphere and the left brain is the analytical and | | | | You are not dead until your brain is dead. Your brain |
| judgmental hemisphere. Anything that is new or not | | | | needs two things to survive: fuel and activation. Fuel |
| familiar to an individual is right brain dominant. | | | | comes in the form of oxygen and glucose. Glucose |
| Anything that is familiar is left brain dominant. | | | | comes from the food you eat, and oxygen comes |
| Along with right and left brain there are different | | | | from the air you breathe. The normal inspiration |
| parts of the brain. The frontal lobe controls your | | | | expiration ratio should be exhalation twice as long as |
| personality, the temporal lobe deals with short and | | | | inhalation. That is to say - breathe out twice as long |
| long term memory, the parietal lobe is the lobe of | | | | as you breathe in. |
| the hand, and the occipital lobe, the very back part | | | | There are also specific treatment modalities that a |
| of the head, controls vision. | | | | clinician may utilize to increase function or activation |
| There are specific activities that may stimulate the | | | | of the right or left brain. One example is big letters |
| right or left brain. | | | | made up of small letters. If you look at the small |
| Activities that stimulate the left brain are solving | | | | letters you will fire right cerebellum to left brain. If |
| crossword or word search puzzles, performance of | | | | you look at the big letters you will fire left cerebellum |
| learned tasks, language usage, both comprehensive | | | | to right brain. |
| and expressive, analytical information, problem solving, | | | | Auditory stimulation (listening to nature sounds, clicks |
| and recalling new information. Geometric or spatial | | | | of a metronome, or Mozart in a major key) in the |
| memory, hand gestures, writing one's name, | | | | left ear comes up through the brain stem over to |
| classifications of pictures or words into categories, | | | | the right brain and vice versa for the right ear. |
| recalling complex narratives, recognizing someone you | | | | Visual stimulation from the left side in a checkerboard |
| have met, and name recognition are also all left brain | | | | pattern using different colors comes up through the |
| activities. | | | | optic pathway to the brain stem and up to the right |
| Activities that stimulate the right brain are emotional | | | | brain. The T.E.N.S. unit set at subthreshold stimulates |
| issues, the creative process, recalling memorized lists, | | | | large diameter nerves which fire up to the cerebellum |
| any unfamiliar event or activity, and holding the | | | | and to the opposite brain. |
| attention span. Seeing or feeling different sizes, | | | | |