JULY 2010

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“Our top priority in educating kids should be creating environments that aren’t stressful and helping kids develop brains that function at a high level of efficiency.”
—Dr. Bill Stixrud

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How does stress impact a child’s brain?

What does it do to impulse control? Decision-making? Is the Transcendental Meditation technique an effective antidote? Dr. Bill Stixrud would know. Dr. Stixrud is a renowned clinical neuropsychologist in the Washington, D.C. area, an adjunct faculty member at Children’s National Medical Center, and a consultant to the National Institutes of Health, Divisions of Neuropsychology and Metabolic Disorders. He specializes in the neuropsychological assessment of children, adolescents, and adults with learning, attentional/executive, and/or emotional disorders.

In this first in a series of short interviews, Dr. Stixrud talks about the enormous potential of a child’s brain and the devastating impact on brain development of stress, substance abuse and sleep deprivation. Dr. Stixrud explains the real dangers as kids grow in adolescence. Things like kids making bad decisions, losing motivation, getting depressed, developing eating disorders or self-injury, and abusing drugs or alcohol.

“All these dangers are highly related to stress,” Dr. Stixrud says. “When kids practice Transcendental Meditation, the more they find they are less reactive to stress. They generally sleep better, they find it easier to eat better and get through life. These kids simply need antidotes to these stresses.”

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Russell Simmons & Doc Rutherford partner to help kids

Philanthropist and entrepreneur Russell Simmons and 46-year school principal Dr. George Rutherford share a lot in common. But at the top of the list is their love for children and their desire to bring Transcendental Meditation to any student who wants to meditate. Russell recently spent a memorable afternoon at Doc Rutherford’s school in Washington, talking to students and meditating with 150 kids—and left committed to doing more to help the David Lynch Foundation transform the lives of young people from within.

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Text-2-Give: Help bring meditation to people who need it most

Want to help bring meditation to at-risk school kids in your community? How about to soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder? Now you can, easily—and any amount helps a lot! This month we are debuting our new cell-phone-based “Text-2-Give” program. Simply text “LYNCH” to 85944 to instantly give a $10 donation. Easy to do, and it helps so much! Thanks in advance…

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