Cognitive Challenges

Common Cognitive Challenges

• Memory — storing and retrieving words, facts, and experiences
• Organization — keeping thoughts and activities orderly
• Planning — setting goals and sequencing the steps to reach them
• Mental flexibility — shifting between different ways of looking at a problem
• Judgment — weighing outcomes and choosing a safe course of action
• Processing speed and word-finding difficulty

How MST™ Works With the Brain

Higher-level cognitive skills — memory, planning, organization — are built on a foundation of multisensory processing, the brain's earliest-developing skill for filtering and integrating sensory input. MST™ helps the brain learn or relearn multi-sensory filtering. It simultaneously engages prescribed frequencies of colored light, vestibular (motion) stimulation, auditory stimulation, and somatosensory input, and is designed to support that foundational processing, on the premise that stronger foundational processing may free up cognitive resources for higher-level thinking.

The typical program is a 12-day in-office intensive (two 30-minute sessions per day), followed by an 18-day at-home continuation. Most people notice early changes before the program is complete, though the full effect is typically not apparent until around 90 days.

MST™ is not a stand-alone intervention. It is intended as an adjunct to a person’s overall care, and it is designed to provide a foundation for higher-level interventions (such as classroom instruction, speech, cognitive or occupational therapy, and tutoring) that presume a solid base of sensory processing. It works from the bottom up, at the subcortical level, on how the brain takes in input rather than on the output a person is asked to produce. These statements have not been evaluated by any regulatory authority and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.