What impact does your college experience have on your brain—and therefore on your health, happiness, and well-being? Maharishi University of Management offers students, on an optional basis, a “Brain Integration Report Card” to begin to assess the effects of their college experience on brain functioning. The Brain Integration Report Card supplements traditional measures of student progress such as grades or performance on standardized cognitive and performance tests. The Brain Integration Report Card includes a measure of integration of brain functioning along with scores on standards of psychological measurements and evaluation of subjective reports of self development. The five components of the Brain Integration Report Card include: brain wave patterns during tasks; emotional stability levels; moral reasoning levels; practical intelligence, behavioral strategies, emotional response strategies, and categorical thinking; and self-report measures of development of consciousness. The growth of these measures are indicators of increasing health, happiness and success.
Click on the Play icon below to hear Dr. Fred Travis, developer of the Brain Integration Report Card, speak on “Experience Changes the Brain.”