WWS Book Recommendation - "The Brain Health Book - Using the Power of Neuroscience to Improve Your Life" by John Randolph

John Randolph, PhD, ABPP, is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist, brain health coach and consultant, and member of the adjunct faculty at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. He works with individuals, groups, and organizations interested in developing better strategies to enhance brain health. Randolph dives into attention, memory, and executive function skills; what he calls “the cognitive trio.” Guess what he identifies as a major component of brain health? Movement!

Randolph says, “the more hours per day you spend sitting, the smaller your medial temporal lobe tends to be…Getting up and moving around, even for brief periods of time, really makes a difference for overall health and for brain health.”

We know this. We do this. We value movement at Windham Woods School. From short hikes between classes to vocabulary relay races like our middle school grade science class did this morning in the rain, our students MOVE!