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Poor cognitive fitness can be measured and monitored, prevented and treated in all children

Changing the world one mind at a timeJuly .2017

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Please get in touch at keiron.sparrowhawk@mycognition.com

MyCognition

Changing the world one mind at a time

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Agenda

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• Poor cognitive fitness is a major component of, and a significant risk factor and predictor of mental illness

• We can measure and monitor cognition• We can prevent and treat mental health

• Analyse the cognition of your school• Find the best environment to improve cognition• The best diets, exercise, sleep, internet use regimens, etc

• Personalised and inclusive tailored, brain training • PSHE Education

• Educate children as to what is best for their cognitive health throughout their life

• Your leadership in your school is critical• Cognitive fitness leads to healthier, more successful schools,

healthier children

Physical health – most of us are average… is that a surprise?

Low Mean Good

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Our view of mental health is distorted; it’s about time we owned up to the truth…

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MENTALLY ILL SANE

… that most of us have average mental health.… that its possible to move between states of mental health.

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Mental illnesses tend to emerge early in our development – we should measure and monitor children regularly

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• Until now it has not been easy to assess mental health• Expensive• Requires specialist• Takes time

• Childhood is a critical time for the development of the brain• 50% of mental illness emerge before the age of 14 years• 75% of Mental illnesses emerge before we leave education• The earlier we detect a deterioration, the better the long-term outcome;

• clinically, quality of life, economically

• With new technologies we no longer have an excuse not to measure, monitor, prevent and treat mental health

Understanding the cognitive health of our children is critical - the paper and pencil psychometric tests used to assess cognitive health in children are out of date

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PLANNING

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WISDOM

PROBLEM SOLVING

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Our understanding of cognitive fitness

is based on the research of the five

key cognitive domains

MyCQ takes 15 minutes to administer

Poor cognitive fitness is a major component of, and a significant risk factor and predictor of mental illness

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Cognitive assessment isn’t a pass or fail – it’s a here is where you are now, and how you can get better

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Normal Impairment Severe Impairment

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Assess cognition across the 5 key domains, showing where you are doing well, where you could improve, and where you definitely need help

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In need of help, but could also go on to be strong

Strong – keeping wellDoing OK, but could do better

We can identify and compare across classes, year groups, whole schools and regions, showing the strength of that population

• You can measure your cognition easily with MyCQ

• Not only that, you can access interventions that will help maintain or improve cognition

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Time Course of Cognitive Fitness in Poor, Average and Strong Child Populations

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Gene theory use to sate that what you were dealt at birth, you carried throughout your life

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Epigenetics – the science of how our genes transpose into proteins

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With the right environment and life-style we can improve our cognition at any time of life

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• Environment• Finding out what children are good at, telling them so and allowing them

to excel in that skill• Diet – e.g., reduce sugar• Levels of hydration• Exercise regimen• Sleep• Use of the internet• Stress• Anxiety• Happiness• Disadvantaged children

What causes poor cognitive fitness? What causes good cognitive fitness?

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Finding the optimum level

Cognitive brain training

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Cognitive brain training can make a difference in SEN children

MyCognition Have Produced Innovative Digital Solutions

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A digitally delivered cognitive assessment and training system that provides personalised reports and customised training programmes in an engaging, easy to use digital games format

…optimised with real user data

….underpinned and validated by science

…designed and built by experts

Our mission is to change people’s lives by empirically assessing and improving their cognitive fitness through healthy habits and adaptive, personalised cognitive fitness training that is

targeted to the individual users needs

Inform

Cognitive Training

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Healthy Habits

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MyCQ Assessment

We Combine Cognitive Testing and Training With Healthy Habits in a Yearly Licensed Program, Looking After People 24/7 & 365

MyCQ AquaSnap

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Takeaways• Poor cognitive fitness is a major component of, and a significant risk factor

and predictor of mental illness• We can measure and monitor cognition• We can prevent and treat mental health

• Analyse the cognition of your school• Find the best environment to improve cognition• The best diets, exercise, sleep, internet use regimens, etc

• Personalised and inclusive tailored brain training through AquaSnap• PSHE Education

• Educate children as to what is best for their cognitive health throughout their life• Your leadership in your school is critical

• Cognitive fitness leads to healthier, more successful schools, and children

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Questions?

Please get in touch at keiron.sparrowhawk@mycognition.com

MyCognition

Changing the world one mind at a time

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Cognitive Skills Are Leadership SkillsAttention• To focus and concentrate, even when distracted

Processing Speed• To perform or switch tasks with speed and accuracy

Episodic Memory• To recall previous events, relevant to the current situation; wisdom; learning curve

Working Memory• To calculate; solve problems

Executive Function• To plan and organize, think creatively, regulate self;

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