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Dr. Donalee Markus is a Cognitive Restructuring Specialist who practices clinically applied neuroscience to optimize intellectual potential and the capacity to learn.

Dr. Markus is the author of "Retrain Your Business Brain: Outsmart the Corporate Competition" and the creator of two brain game smart phone applications called Strong Mind Puzzles and BYOPuzzles. Dr. Markus worked with NASA from 1998 to 2005 and is the doctor featured in the highly anticipated memoir, "The Ghost in my Brain: How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get it Back." She works with children and adults to:

• Improve concentration
• Optimize test-taking skills
• Improve study habits
• Enhance communication skills
• Improve organizational skills
• Increase creativity and memory

Since 1983, Donalee Markus and her Designs for Strong Minds™ associates have been maximizing intelligence for individuals and corporations throughout the U.S. An innovative program of exercises, Designs for Strong Minds™, uses game-like, content-free exercises to filter out emotional influences, allowing the participants to work solely on skills.

Dr. Markus has designed programs for children, adolescents, professionals, and aging adults. Dr. Markus has had tremendous success working with individuals who have suffered traumatic head injuries. In addition, she was selected to design a program for NASA's Critical Thinking Skills Project.

Most people play to their strengths, avoiding situations where they need to use skills with which they are less comfortable. However, through content-free exercises, Dr. Markus helps these individuals improve on their weaknesses by building and exercising their mental muscles.

The Designs for Strong Minds™ exercises allow individuals to hold more information, sort and organize information in innovative ways, and collect information from a broader base. These skills then help participants:

• Enhance their communication skills
• Increase their flexibility and risk taking
• Improve their analytical ability
• Optimize their creativity

Designs for Strong Minds™ maximizes intelligence by making participants aware of the ways in which they think. The program:

• Allows participants to understand their thought processes
• Gives them insight into their problem solving strategies
• Gives them the courage to take risks
• Presents them with options for change and change to come
• Offers the opportunity to habituate new processing behaviors

Dr. Markus earned her Ph.D. at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 1983. She did post-doctoral work under Reuven Feuerstein at the Hadassah-Wizo Research Institute, Jerusalem, Israel.

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4 Hours with Dr. Donalee Markus- a Cognition Specialist who works with children and adults to optimize the brain. Sessions are with Dr. Donalee Markus at her office in a Chicago-suburb or via telephone.