When we consider looking at primary human expressions from a neuro-cognitive point of view, we can categorize these expressions into five primary neuro-cognitive functions.

These basic functions influence our awareness, perceptions and expressions in life. Within these five basic functional groups are many interrelated neurodevelopmental underpinnings required for proper execution and expression.

When these underpinnings are fully functional they allow us to perceive daily events and execute proper required actions or it gives us the ability to mirror our deep expressions of self back into life.

When they are dysfunctional impacted, these underpinnings act like shields, blocking and filtering our perceptions and distorting our experiences of life.

Depending upon what has been blocked and how the information has been filtered will result in our perceptions or distortions of life. These are experienced as learning difficulties, social inadequacies, under achievement and distorted realities which reflect in personality quirks.

Neurodevelopment and Functional Processing Integration Assessment

Neurodevelopmental functions are basic abilities used by the mind to express our individuality or uniqueness. They represent neurological capacities mediated by the brain.

Many of these functions can be measured through the use of passive electro-physical measures. Our individual skill sets in life are built on these fundamental neuro-processing building blocks and they combine in many ways in order for us to express our creativity.

These functions are considered developmental in that they continue to change and improve with age, beginning from birth to the day we choose to stop.

Processing of sensory stimulus is essential for humans in determining their responses and actions. If behaviorally relevant aspects of the environment are not correctly represented in the brain, then our behavior cannot be appropriate. Cognitive neuroscience has consequently emphasized the importance of understanding brain mechanisms of processing of information, as the prerequisites of cognition. The changing electro-physical measures that underlie the fundamentals of brain processing have been captured in databases by universities across the U.S. under grants sponsored by the National Institute of Health.

The Neurodevelopment/ Functional Processing Integration Profile measures and reports age appropriate neuro-functional responses to the brain’s ability to:

• receive
• integrate
• learn
• express information.

For adults and children alike "off " value measures may be due to lack of age appropriate development within certain functional areas or due to a loss of function due to illness, stress, diet, allergies or accidents. We look at the brain's fundamental functional neuro-processing building blocks, their constructs and overall integrative performance on the brain as a whole.

We attempt to measure and then show via objective measures how an individual's performances within these constructs correspond to personal interactions in life and at school or at work.

These constructs are central within the field of brain based learning theory and should help highlight an individual's overall cognitive performance including learning differences. This is achieved by offering an overview of potential breakdown points and the common resulting difficulties that often are experienced in work, a learning environment and life in general.

Integration Measures

• Sensory Motor Functions
• Memory Ability
• Sensory Input Modulation Responses
• Academic Achievement Ability
• Behavioral/Social Interaction
• Academic Learning Ability
  
  

With these measures we are able to get a more detailed picture of processing strengths and weaknesses, and the brain's natural ability to receive, process, learn and integrate information. An individualized program is designed based on the results of these measures and addresses achievement shortcomings and neurological dysfunctions while performing specific tasks.


Attention and Concentration Function

The attention network within the brain allows us to consciously and unconsciously exercises interactive control over our mental functions. These functions manage our mind and as such do not interpret incoming information nor implement actions. The network activates, regulates and monitors those parts of the brain which allow us to express
what we know and desire. We group attention control into three primary constructs:

• Energy Level (mental energy level and motivation),
• Processing Control (ability to maintain and sustain focus and concentration)
• Expression Control (ability to self regulate)
  
  
  

Executive Function and Memory

A balanced mind strives to discover, learn and create. We do this by making sense or putting things in order. The
neurodevelopment construct which aids in facilitating this function consist of the interplay between our memory
system and the executive function as they interact with the temporal lobes. Functionally, this translates into our
ability to sequence and order information.


Motor And Perceptual Function

These findings highlight significant threshold settings for the receptive and expressive sensory systems based upon how we adapt and maintain balance with environmental demands.

Three key processes are measured:

• Modulation
• Habituation
• Sensitization

Hyper or hypo readings represent potential functional brain
processing disorganization located within both the Peripheral and Central Nervous System (CNS).


Metacognitive Activation and Higher Order Function

Higher order thinking is the ability to think in complex patterns. It consist of our ability to:

• understand concepts,
• problem solve
• develop concrete expressions
• develop divergent and creative thinking models
• think in analogies
• classify and
• most importantly put it all together

This measures the brain’s fundamental building blocks required to develop higher order thinking abilities. It is a measure of overall functional integration of many brain systems and the emergence of concept formulation.