Communication

Larry Ortega had done everything right. A disciplined athlete since his youth, he regularly went surfing and running throughout his adulthood and always strove to challenge himself mentally.

“Until I got to my forties, I always told people that I didn’t feel a day older than 22, the year I graduated from college,” he said. “I’ve had a very diverse life and I think that’s really helped me mentally.”

Nevertheless, Larry found his mental processing slowing as he approached 50, particularly in his ability to speed read and multitask on the job.

"During summer visits with family and friends, a typical way we relax is to play games. I was surprised when I and others noticed that my game performance -including Boggle, Scrabble, and Bridge-was significantly improved. My scores were consistently higher than is typical, and appeared to be due to increased concentration and greater sustained focus. Thanks Posit Science-I genuinely believe this is due to your program."

When Edward Manck stopped playing Saxophone after he graduated high school, he assumed that he would probably never pick it up again. But now at 86 years old, Edward has relearned the instrument and rekindled his love of music, all with the help of Posit Science and the Brain Fitness Program.

“Now I’ve just been improving and improving,” he said. “My wife and I perform at these events and I play the horn.”

Edward has become a fixture at events for the elderly in his home town of Bedford, Virginia, playing along with his wife Julie, who sings.

Interpersonal communication has always been important to Ed Steenerson, first as a rehabilitation psychologist and later as an engineer and manager in the high-tech industry. Ed’s leadership and team-building skills were all the more remarkable in light of the head trauma he had suffered from a serious injury in his teens. Through hard work and persistence, Ed had learned to overcome the after-effects on his memory and cognition. But while working for a Fortune 100 company in his early 40s, things began to fall apart.

Debbie Reed is always on the lookout for worthwhile new courses, activities, and events. It was only natural, then, that she found herself drawn to an article on the Posit Science Brain Fitness Program™ in the town newspaper. She decided to give it a try. “I had just turned 50,” she explains, “and we Baby Boomers think of ourselves as forever young. We’re willing to try new things to keep ourselves fit.”