Why Does My Brain Make Me Keep Losing My Keys???

The Neuroscience Behind Retraining Brain Pathways

Why are remembering and paying attention so difficult as we get older? It’s not an irreversible part of aging- it’s about slow brain speeds. Recent advances in modern neuroscience have revealed methods that can train our brain pathways to avoid forgetfulness, slow processing, and decreased attention. Dr. Teri Lawton and Dr. Jyoti Mishra have spent their careers understanding these new re-training methods, and have developed innovative programs that they are now developing into entrepreneurial businesses. 

Dr. Lawton and Dr. Mishra will show the audience how and why their systems work, with guests discovering the results for themselves as do a practice session with the methods. We’ll a before and after assessment, finding quantitative improvement in our own mental abilities after only the single session.

Tuesday, September 24

Westpac Wealth Partners

4225 Executive Square, Lobby

 La Jolla, CA 

Networking: 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Discussion and Demo: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm 

$25 TiE Members and Non-Members

Free for TiE Charter Members 

Presenters:

Dr. Teri Lawton is the CEO, Founder, and Director of Research of Perception Dynamics Institute (PDI).  She has over 40 years of experience as a neurobiologist. Dr. Lawton completed a postdoc from Caltech in Pasadena, CA, a PhD from UC Santa Barbara, and a BS in Mathematics and Psychology from the University of Michigan. Her research and studies investigate reading, attention, and memory problems.

Perception Attention Therapy (“PATH”) was developed for Dr. Lawton’s PhD thesis, as a research tool, but she soon discovered the effectiveness of PATH as a cognitive therapy. Dr. Lawton first discovered that PATH could treat cognitive functioning after suffering a severe concussion at age 25, which caused her to have to learn to walk and talk again. She was told recovery would take 14 years, but within 11 months she was able to pass her PhD qualifying exams after using PATH as a therapy to help heal after brain injury. Many years later, Dr. Lawton discovered PATH’s ability to treat dyslexia. Her daughter was the lowest reader in in her kindergarten class, but by first grade she was the best reader in the class. Over the past 20 years, working with people who struggle with reading and cognitive skills, Dr. Lawton has been conducting studies and working with patients and students perfecting PATH to dramatically improve visual and cognitive skills.

Dr. Jyoti Mishra is an Assistant Professor in the dept. of Psychiatry at UC San Diego. She is the founder and director of the NEATLabs (Neural Engineering & Translation Labs; neatlabs.ucsd.edu), and directs its human research. She has expertise in the computational, cognitive and translational neurosciences, particularly in neuroscientific studies of attention, learning and brain plasticity. She has contributed to several technology innovations in video gaming, cognitive training, self- regulation training, and brain computer interfaces, and holds 7 innovation patents/copyrights. Her lab is innovating neurotechnologies for scalable and cost-effective brain mapping and therapeutics for several mental health disorders across the lifespan. Her digital research involves both local and global communities in the US, India and Australia. 

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