CBC National News: Brain Gain
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Browse Full-length Non-member TitlesTakes viewers to an inner city high school where students had serious discipline and learning problems. More than half of the eighth and ninth grade students here were diagnosed with ADHD, and many worked at fourth grade level. The teacher, Allison Cameron, discovered the groundbreaking research by the Harvard Professor of Psychiatry, John J. Ratey, M.D. (author of "Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain"), showing a link between sustained aerobic activity and the brain's ability to grow new cells. Allison also learned that Napierville High School in the Chicago area, which began exercise programs 18 years ago, has one of the best academic records in the U.S.
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Runtime: 24 minutes 21 seconds
- Topic: Counseling and Self-Help, Education, Health and Safety, Science, Sports and Recreation
- Subtopic: Disabilities, Nervous System, Physical Fitness, Postsecondary, Special Education
- Grade/Interest Level: 7 - 12
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- Release Year: 2010
- Producer/Distributor: Alexander Street Press
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