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At Crossroads Institute we use a Neuropsychological Developmental Model developed by Alexander Luria.

Luria identified that the brain was not made up of isolated individual parts dedicated to a single function, such as speaking or doing math. He discovered that the brain actually was comprised as a set of cognitive functional systems or loops. Each interact with the other contributing to the brain's ability to process information and draw conclusions.

In other words, the ability to do math required many parts of the brain instead of only one part.

It was discovered that each part of the brain underwent what appeared to be an expansion and contraction process, based upon the biological and developmental age of the person. This natural developmental cycle occurs approximately every four years until the day we die.

What does this mean?:

• The brain matures in a cyclic fashion.
• As the brain matures specific functional systems develop at specific times.
• The different parts of the brain understand life based upon its developmental ability.
• We set thresholds which our nervous system naturally "modulates" based upon our "perceptual" understanding of the stimuli.
• Our understanding about life is "colored" or biased by the developmental stages we have completed as well as those stages we have not completed.