Creative Pathways PT

05/08/2025

Join the fun this Saturday at the Best Buddies New Hampshire Friendship Walk in Concord! I’ll be there with obstacle courses and movement games for kids (and grown-ups of course too!).

Details and registration info below—hope to see you there!

https://www.bestbuddies.org/newhampshire/friendship-walk

May 2025 Concord & Exeter Join us as we walk in support of Best Buddies' mission of inclusion.

05/02/2025

Best Buddies Friendship Walk next week on May10th in Concord, NH! Here's some more info on the event. https://www.concordmonitor.com/Best-Buddies-Concord-NH-Friendship-Walk-2025-60747763?fbclid=IwY2xjawKB2L9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETEwVGx3UUpJM21SQmFIUTJBAR7C_TYYgyo5j0Pi6tUsskJKimxoyDA75mgwFPWKPGYDYpgC2HnBfk_mYVmHmQ_aem_tprpN4w05u88-k15-Ys7zg

Best Buddies will hold ​its Friendship Walk in Concord on Saturday, May 10. Over 1,000 people with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities are expected to gather to walk for inclusion and celebrate the international nonprofit organization’s mission of establishing a global volunt...

04/24/2025

A great great 2025 article out of the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health addressing the needs for early detection of primitive reflexes (PR's) and retained primitive reflexes (RPR's) in children. When unaddressed these can have detrimental cascading effects on motor function as well as social and communicative behaviors.

Here's the article.

09/07/2024

Brain differences in depressed individuals!!

A study found that individuals with depression have a brain network, the frontostriatal salience network, nearly twice as large as those without depression. This enlargement is stable over time and could serve as a biomarker for early diagnosis.

07/30/2024

https://neurosciencenews.com/cognitive-development-toddlers-26412/

Researchers found that 16-month-old toddlers engage more brain regions to develop cognitive skills like inhibitory control.

07/10/2024

Cool article that talks about what happens in our brain when we listen to music!

Researchers have uncovered how our brain reacts to and recognises music. The research shows that listening to music sets off a complex chain reaction of events in the brain —a discovery that may one day be used to help screen for dementia.

05/29/2024

Do hear a voice in your head or have conversations with yourself? Some memory tasks may be harder if you don’t apparently!! Woah!

Between 5-10 per cent of the population do not have an inner voice, and they find it more difficult to perform certain verbal memory tasks, new research shows.

05/18/2024

https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/study-reveals-link-between-autism-spectrum-disorder-and-ptsd-386515

For the first time, researchers from the Queensland Brain Institute have proven that a mild stress is enough to trigger post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in mouse models of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

04/27/2024

How we may be able to use physical activity to achieve better mental health.

Interesting read about how low/moderate impact activity (like golf, walking, gardening, etc) was shown to be helpful for conditions like depression whereas high-intensity was not as effective.

https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/low-but-not-high-intensity-exercise-linked-to-reduced-depression-386179 #:~:text=A%20particularly%20strong%20association%20was,observed%20for%20high%20intensity%20exercise.

Researchers from Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) carried out an umbrella review of studies carried out across the world to examine the potential of physical activity as a mental health intervention.

04/17/2024

Some new news on how adverse childhood experiences can get “under the skin” and could lead to muscular metabolic dysfunctions in adulthood!

https://www.technologynetworks.com/cell-science/news/childhood-trauma-leaves-lasting-imprint-on-muscle-function-385747?utm_content=289801904&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&hss_channel=fbp-479163965435700&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMQABHTk4O8BcXeyoqsRAbzle4bGL6vwRuAHOa9MVjx8MQ5pHfVpo35z74paz0g_aem_AXOZi0BrRz2qJl9IocnwnmZOKPLHVIxfCfZ1tqPWREeXkn45jJL8S3LoGpobk4rSnh8

A University of Michigan study has shown that traumatic experiences during childhood may get “under the skin” later in life, impairing the muscle function of people as they age.

03/28/2024

A cool listen about cell danger response and what can disrupt completion of healing cycle process . . .

The metabolism of the cell danger response, healing, and ME/CFSDr. Naviaux is Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Pathology at the University of Californi...