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Sleep and Brain Function: Sleep Tips to Improve Your Performance

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How to Get Rid of the Yips in Sports: A Neuroscience Path Back to Peak Performance

How to Get Rid of the Yips

Mental Training for Athletes: 3 Brain Exercises for Top Performance

Mental Training for Athletes

Why Do I Forget Things So Quickly: The Science Behind Forgetfulness

Why Do I Forget Things So Quickly

Tampa Bay Parents Deserve Real Answers—Not More Guesswork

Tampa Bay Parents Brain | Genesis Brain Institute

Brain Optimization and High Performance Training: Real Tools – Real Results

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Sleep and Brain Function
Michael Kawula

Sleep and Brain Function: Sleep Tips to Improve Your Performance

Sleep and brain function affect how you think, feel, and perform. But could the habits you use to get through the day be making tomorrow harder? Does an afternoon nap help you recover or make tonight’s sleep worse? What about that energy drink for a quick pick me up? And if your watch says you slept well, why do you still feel tired? We brought these questions to Gabriela Vieira, a board-certified physician assistant and retired U.S. Army veteran at Genesis Brain Institute in Tampa. Her advice goes beyond getting more hours. Understanding your sleep, and the habits that

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How to Get Rid of the Yips
Michael Kawula

How to Get Rid of the Yips in Sports: A Neuroscience Path Back to Peak Performance

How to get rid of the yips can feel impossible when a skill you have trusted for years suddenly stops working under pressure. That is what makes the yips so frustrating. The athlete usually knows what to do. The brain and body have practiced the movement hundreds or even thousands of times. Yet when the moment arrives, the hands tighten, the mind speeds up, and a movement that once felt automatic starts to feel forced. J.T. Poston recently gave sports fans a powerful example of how quickly elite performance can unravel. Only three weeks after winning the Memorial Tournament

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Mental Training for Athletes
Michael Kawula

Mental Training for Athletes: 3 Brain Exercises for Top Performance

Mental training for athletes is becoming one of the most important ways to improve focus, resilience, and performance. Athletes train their bodies every day, but the brain is what helps them stay calm under pressure, make quick decisions, recover after mistakes, and keep going when the game gets hard. At Genesis Brain Institute in Tampa, we use this type of training with athletes, elite performers, and people working to improve their mental health. We have seen how training the brain and nervous system can help people gain better control over how they focus, respond, and recover. But we do

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Why Do I Forget Things So Quickly
Michael Kawula

Why Do I Forget Things So Quickly: The Science Behind Forgetfulness

Why do I forget things so quickly? Most people blame their memory, but memory is only part of the story. Attention and working memory affect nearly every part of life. They help children learn in school, athletes react quickly, professionals stay organized, parents juggle responsibilities, and older adults maintain independence. When these systems struggle, people often blame themselves. They may wonder, Am I getting older? Am I distracted? Do I have ADHD? Is something wrong with me? But forgetfulness is not always a memory problem. Think of attention as a flashlight and working memory as a whiteboard. Your flashlight

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Tampa Bay Parents Brain | Genesis Brain Institute
Michael Kawula

Tampa Bay Parents Deserve Real Answers—Not More Guesswork

Tampa Bay Parents Deserve Real Answers—Not More Guesswork If you’re a parent in Tampa Bay, chances are you’ve asked yourself one (or all) of the following questions: Why can’t my child focus? Why are they anxious all the time? Why do simple tasks turn into meltdowns? You’re not alone. At a recent Tampa Bay homeschool conference in Trinity Florida, attended by over 1,500 families, one session stood out. The room was packed with parents seeking more than labels and medication.  They were searching for real answers about what was going on inside their children’s brains. They found hope and

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Brain Optimization
Michael Kawula

Brain Optimization and High Performance Training: Real Tools – Real Results

Brain Optimization and High Performance Training Aren’t Just for Athletes Anymore They’re for everyone. Business executives, students, parents juggling family life, and yes, elite competitors all face moments where they feel “off.” Sluggish. Foggy. Stuck. Whether it’s in a boardroom, classroom, or a championship game—everyone deserves to perform at their best. But what happens when you hit a slump? Let’s rewind to a recent visit at Genesis Brain Institute. A young golfer came in with “the yips.” If you’ve ever blanked during a presentation, snapped at your kids after a stressful day, or stared at a school exam unable

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