Course Objectives
Upon completing this course, you should be able to:

• Name and explain the seven main tenets of neuroplasticity's capacity to drive positive change within the adult brain.
• Name and explain the four requirements that must be met in order to achieve optimal brain plasticity.
• Understand and discuss six important turning points in the history of neuroscience that occurred between the year 1906 and the present, and name the scientists and physicians associated with those breakthroughs.
• Locate eight major structures of the human brain on anatomical diagrams and explain their primary functions.
• Define and possess a working knowledge of 76 medical and scientific terms related to the
  subject of cognitive health.
• Specify the relationship between cognitive fitness and each of 15 prevalent mental and physical health issues (including elevated or unmanaged stress levels, sleep disorders, cardiovascular disease, stroke, brain injury, depression, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, chronic pain syndrome, obsessive compulsive disorder, vision loss, hearing deficit, and postural instability.)
• Specify the relationship between cognitive fitness and each of 11 influential lifestyle factors (including physical activity levels, social support and interaction, personal interests and hobbies, skills development and maintenance, formal and informal educational levels, life experience and lifelong learning, professional work and volunteerism, travel, the arts, pet ownership, and positive or negative mental attitudes).
• Understand and put into use the American Senior Fitness Association (SFA) recommendations for incorporating cognitive fitness activities into physical activity programming.
• Identify and put into use three major differences between the design and implementation of cognitive fitness activities for active, independent seniors and those for frail elderly long-term care residents.
• Explain and put into use 12 separate criteria by which to evaluate the merit of specific activity ideas in terms of their potential effectiveness as cognitive fitness undertakings.
• Utilize a 25-item cognitive fitness activity checklist and a 19-item activity action plan worksheet to assess and develop older adult brain fitness activity ideas for implementation in the physical fitness setting.
• Successfully conduct 25 specific SFA Brain Fitness Project activities in the senior fitness setting in order to promote the cognitive health of older adult physical activity participants.