Helping developing brains, both healthy and struggling, is our mission
We want every “neurotypical child” to have the chance to excel further. We want every child with learning, behaviour or functioning issues to lead a better life.
We achieve that through:
- Creating a place for the scientific research to meet educators and special educators needs.
- Providing interdisciplinary science based certification training that allows educators and practitioners working with children to adopt measurable multi-modality integrative learning techniques.
Become Board Certified Professional Neuroeducator (BCPNEd)
34 000+
parents trained
1 200+
educators
2300+
practitioners
Scientific advisory board
We are honoured to have leading scientists from major academic institutions on our advisory board. Led by Prof. Gerry Leisman they provide cutting edge science, leadership and mentor our organisation and its members.
IANDE Management and Scientific Board
Conference and scientific journal
Following from Oxford, Harvard and Tel Aviv universities, next year our Movement and Cognition conference will be at the magnificent Sorbonne. Those who wish to publish a paper can contact us for further details.
Register“The children born today will need to acquire skill sets for professions which do not exist yet. The children of today will need more brain power, perseverance, adaptability and agility. Neurodevelopmental education is incremental to building those qualities and assuring that every child develop to their full potential. IANDE is the community of the experts, practitioners and researchers who can make the above a reality.”
Sir Richard Heygate
IANDE patron
Why Should I Join IANDE?
There are a multitude of reasons why IANDE is vital to you and to your profession and our children. From our advocacy efforts to our scientific journals and conferences at major world universities, to our promotion of the burgeoning field of Neuroeducation, IANDE is working hard to ensure the vitality and the advancement of Neuroeducation as a science.
IANDE will support you at every stage of your career and wherever your path leads. Access to our scientific journals, opportunities for renowned grants and awards, and the ability to connect and collaborate with like-minded scientists, practitioners, administrators, and parents, from around the world, our annual conference hosted at major world universities.
IANDE members are part of a collective effort to advance Neuroeducation of all types across all areas of our diverse discipline. IANDE promotes scientific exchange, increases public understanding of our field, fosters innovation in methodology, and ensures that high quality research gets into the hands of policy makers, the public, and other consumers, and users of Neuroeducation. As an IANDE Member, you support these efforts, while benefiting from IANDE’s multitude of resources that help you in the important work you do.
These are just some of the many reasons your colleagues are already members.There are a multitude of reasons why IANDE is vital to you and to your profession and our children. From our advocacy efforts to our scientific journals and conferences at major world universities, to our promotion of the burgeoning field of Neuroeducation, IANDE is working hard to ensure the vitality and the advancement of Neuroeducation as a science.
IANDE will support you at every stage of your career and wherever your path leads. Access to our scientific journals, opportunities for renowned grants and awards, and the ability to connect and collaborate with like-minded scientists, practitioners, administrators, and parents, from around the world, our annual conference hosted at major world universities.
IANDE members are part of a collective effort to advance Neuroeducation of all types across all areas of our diverse discipline. IANDE promotes scientific exchange, increases public understanding of our field, fosters innovation in methodology, and ensures that high quality research gets into the hands of policy makers, the public, and other consumers, and users of Neuroeducation. As an IANDE Member, you support these efforts, while benefiting from IANDE’s multitude of resources that help you in the important work you do.
These are just some of the many reasons your colleagues are already members.
Use the contact form below to:
Express an interest in membership, consultancy (applies to both parents and practitioners)
For The Certification course pay here: https://buy.stripe.com/8wMaEKdab4xE1Ve3cc
IANDE Management and Scientific Board
Prof. Gerry Leisman
Co-founder & Science Director
Prof. Gerry Leisman is an Israeli neuroscientist educated in Europe and the United States in Medicine, Neuroscience, and Biomedical Engineering at Manchester University. He additionally received a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering from Union University, in 1979. He is currently a Full Professor and Research Fellow at the University of Haifa in Israel. He is concurrently Professor of Restorative Neurology at the University of Medical Sciences in Havana, Cuba. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Brain, Body Cognition. And Neuroeducation section editor of the journal Brain Sciences. He has also been influential in examining mechanisms of self-organizing systems in the brain and nervous system applied to cognitive functions exemplified by his work in movement-cognitive interaction, memory, kinesiology, optimization, consciousness, autism, and developmental disabilities. He has likewise applied optimization strategies to movement and gait, cognition. It is in this context that he was one of the first to identify functional disconnectivities in the brain and nervous system. He was elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science in 1990, a Senior Member of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society of in IEEE in 1986, and a Life Fellow of the International Association of Functional Neuroscience and Rehabilitation in 2010, having received its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. He has served as a consultant to the US National Sciences Foundation and European Commission . He is the co-author of the text with Dr. Robert Melillo on Neurodevelopmental Disorders: An Evolutionary Perspective, with Dr. Joav Merrick on and on Neuroplasticity. He has published hundreds of papers in the Neurosciences, Cognitive Science, Biomedical Engineering, and in the Systems Sciences literature.
Maia Vassileva, MA Ed, MBA
Co-founder, Organisational Director
Maia is an early childhood specialist, neurodevelopmental educator and management consultant with international career in Europe and Australia. Currently she runs a network of educational centres in Europe helping children with learning, behaviour and developmental issues function better. Her team coaches thousands of parents and supports them in unlocking their kids potential. She brings to our community focus, organisational acumen and practice growing expertise. Her dream is for every child to have a chance to develop to the best of their abilities and the community of the neurodevelopmental education gives her hope that it is a dream that can come true.
Ruth Gannon Cook, Ed.D.
Professor Emeritan – DePaul University
Ruth received her doctorate from the University of Houston with an emphasis in Instructional Design (2003). She also attended the Queens College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, with a Certificate for Advanced Studies for Change Diffusion and Technology Integration. Her M.S. Ed. and B. A. are both from Loyola University, New Orleans. She has published several books, her newest, Lessons Learned from Reading the Signs (Sense/Brill Books, December 2020). She currently serves on the boards of the USAWEC Center for Global Enterprise Initiative and continues to serve on New York’s Board of Trustees for the Cordell Hull Foundation for International Education. In addition, she has served on the Girl Scouts of America’s Chicago Council of 100 (2013-2015), was Editor of Journal of Educators Online (JEO) for five years, and has also published and presented internationally.
Dr Robert Mellilo
Degree in Neuroscience, Clinical Rehabilitation Neuropsychology
Dr Robert Melillo is clinician with 30 yrs of experience and is one of the most respected experts in the world in brain developmental issues and functional neurology He is a 5xs bestselling author, his book Disconnected Kids has been translated into 11 languages with more than 500,000 books sold internationally. Dr Melillo holds Multiple graduate degrees in ,Neuroscience Clinical Rehabilitation Neuropsychology ,Chiropractic Neurology ,and is a Diplomate in functional Neurology and a Fellow in Childhood Developmental Disorders .He is currently a PgD candidate in Functional Neurology at Haifa University.
Diana Martinez
MD and Neuroscientist
Dr. Martinez is a Medical Doctor and Neuroscientist with 16 years of experience in the clinical applications of Neuromodulation and Psychophysiology therapies. These therapies are used to treat various neurological, psychological and psychiatric conditions. Dr. Martinez owns two private practices – Boston Neurodynamics, in the Brookline section of Boston, and NEOCEMOD in her hometown of Aguas Calientes, Mexico. At Boston Neurodynamics, Dr. Martinez offers high quality training and consulting for neurophysiological evaluations and treatments for mental health. Dr. Martinez is considered a subject matter expert in her field, and for the past 14 years has consulted and lectured around the world. Dr. Martinez has a Phd in Cognitive Neurosciences. Dr. Martinez is a mother of two and a proud Latino woman who is passionate about promoting the presence of diversity and inclusion in her field.
Dr. Oded Meiron, PhD
Oded was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar Ian University investigating working memory mechanisms and their modulation using transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in healthy humans. Afterwards, Oded was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Columbia University Medical Center, Department of experimental therapeutics, investigating tDCS-mediated cognitiveenhancing treatments and event-related EEG in schizophrenia patients. Oded is currently heading the Electrophysiology and Neurocognition lab at the Clinical Research Center for Brain Sciences, Herzog Medical Center, and is the Director of the Non-invasive Brain Stimulation Clinic at Herzog Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel. Dr. Meiron holds a degrees in Psychology (B.A., Hunter College at City University of New York, NY, USA), Psychology (M.A., Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel), and Psychology at the Behavioral-CognitiveNeuroscience (BCN) PhD program (PhD, Tel Aviv University). Oded is a Teaching-Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Medical School teaching 5 th year medical students about non-invasive treatments and electrophysiological assessments in schizophrenia and major depression psychiatric disorders, within the psychiatry department teaching faculty. His main research focuses on studying working memory and executive functioning brain mechanisms in humans and developing functional neural markers and non-invasive neuromodulation interventions to improve cognitive functioning in neurological and psychiatric disorders.
Dr. Isabela Almeida Ramos
Ph.D. in Physical Education
Isabela Ramos serves as an adjunct professor of Graduation in the Physical Education Department at the Catholic University of Brasilia, Brazil. She is best known for her work on how physical exercise thru play and games could improve children learning, focused in particular on executive functions, neuroelectric measures, and cognitive parameters. She earned her graduation from Physical Education in 2010. During that time Isabela spent three years teaching at sports social programs attending to children with social vulnerabilities, giving swimming, soccer, tennis, athletics, and dance classes. As well, she worked in seventeen summer camp editions with recreational activities for nine years. Isabela takes eight years working on research projects that have involved its focus on type, intensity, and duration of physical exercise influence on children executive functions, learning, and academic achievement, she also investigated how to play through learn could help children to learn better. During master’s and doctoral degrees, she has served as an academic editor for scientific Brazilian journals and fellow agencies, also in children population themes. In her final years at doctor degree Isabela visited the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Illinois, where she was involved in participant testing and developed skills in cognitive and neuroelectric measurement at FITKIDS program (Fitness improves Thinking). For seven years like an undergraduate teacher, she worked with a ground of children’s growth and development topics related to nutrition, social, emotional, and physical activity, including psychomotricity and motor learning. She was named Innovative pedagogical Educator of the Year by the students at Estácio de Sá University in 2017, place where she spent two years teaching health courses. Her Ph.D. dissertation was excellence award-winning at the Movement conference in Harvard Medical School in 2018. The same research awarded in Brazilian Congress twice between the top 5 oral presentations. It was about three months of interdisciplinary physical education program improvements in selective attention, at social vulnerability children. After completing her Ph.D., Isabela engaged a guest speaker at seven elementary Brazilian schools and universities, to lead the “play is good for your brain” workshop. In addition, Isabela was a semifinalist of FameLab Brazil 2018/2020, and finalist of Science Slam EURAXESS Brazil 2018, both scientific communication competitions.
Prof. Thomas Schack
Professor for Neurocognition – Bielefeld University
Thomas Schack is a Professor for Neurocognition and Action at Bielefeld University. He received a degree in Sport Science from the University of Education Zwickau in 1990 and additionally a degree in Psychology from the University Leipzig in 1999. He earned a PhD at the Technical University Chemnitz. From 1996 until 2002, he worked as a research associate at the Psychological Institute of the German Sport University Cologne. He obtained his Habilitation (Venia Legendi) in psychology from the same institution in 2002. From 2002 until 2004 he was appointed as an associate professor at German Sport University Cologne and from 2004 until 2005 as a professor of Biomechanics and Motor Control at the University Halle-Wittenberg. Since 2005 Thomas Schack holds a position as a professor at Bielefeld University and since 2007 he is a principal investigator within the Center of Excellence “Cognitive Interaction Technology” (CITEC). He has been the head of the interdisciplinary Graduate School of CITEC since 2008. In 2009, he became a Managing Council member and since 2013, he has been Vice President of the International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP). Thomas Schack received excellence certificates in the fields of sport psychology and movement science, e.g. the Bernstein-Scientific Award in 1996 and the TOYOTA-Scientific Award in 2002. He was involved in interdisciplinary collaboration grants, like the EU-project AMARSi or the BMBF project Kognihome and coordinated the BMBF project ADAMAAS about intelligent adaptive glasses, which became awarded by the german president as one of the hundred most important innovations in Germany 2018. He has been a partner in the DAAD Network on ‘Intelligent Interactive Systems’ and has been a coordinator in the DFG-ANR project CEEGE and coordinates recently the BMBF-project AVIKOM.
Dr. Roni Zohar
PhD -Researcher, educator and improvisation & dance instructor
Dr. Roni Zohar is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute under the supervision of Prof. Ehud Ahishar and Prof. Eitan Gross. They try to understand the links between eye movement and conceptualization of scientific concepts. Her current research expands upon her doctoral studies in which she has developed and researched an approach to combining physics studies and movement. The doctoral studies were on behalf of the Department of Science Teaching at the Weizmann Institute under the supervision of Prof. Bat-sheva Eylon, in collaboration with the Department of Education at the University of Berkeley, USA under the supervision of Prof. Dor Abrahamson. Roni holds a master’s degree in neuroscience from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the field of motor control and a bachelor’s degree in physics from the Hebrew University, in collaboration with studies at the Movement Department at the Rubin Academy of Dance in Jerusalem. Roni works to promote the integration of movement in teaching in Israel and the link between science and dance, facilitates academic courses in movement, science and learning at the Weizmann Institute, instructor teacher training and she is an improvisation and movement instructor for women at the Dance and Movement School in Ness.
Dr. Raed Mualem
Ph.D., M.Sc., M.H.A., M.A. LLB
Dr. Mualem completed his undergraduate studies in biology (B.Sc). He also holds master’s degrees in science (M.Sc), educational leadership (M.A), and management and health administration (M.H.A), Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) along with a doctoral degree in life science—all awarded by Tel Aviv University. He completed post-doctoral work in biochemistry at CNRS in France and went on to teach courses such as human biology, Brain development and Human Health and animal physiology for Graduate and Undergraduate students at Oranim Academic College of Education, and Since September 2019 he serve as Department Head of Natural and Environmental Sciences at the Faculty of Education. He served as vice president of Mar Elias Educational Institutions from 2002-2009, directing a dynamic K-12 school system.
Dr. Mualem Established with Dr. Gerry Leisman the Institute for Brain & Rehabilitation Sciences In Nazareth.
Prof. Nira Mashal
Prof. at the faculty of Education at Bar-Ilan Univ
Prof. Nira Mashal is a full Prof. at the faculty of Education at Bar-Ilan Univ. in Israel. Prof Mashal is a member at the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center where she obtained her PhD. Prof. Mashal is the head of the Brain & Language Lab. and the head of the Neuroeducation program. Her research involves investigating the brain basis of figurative language processing, and in particular metaphoric language, in neurotypicals (NT) as well as individuals with ASD, schizophrenia, learning disabilities and intellectual disabilities. The broad field of her research includes investigating the cognitive mechanisms and the hemispheric interaction that allow the proper processing of language such as word retrieval in aphasia and reading in intellectual disabilities. Her aim is to develop intervention programs to enhance cognitive and language functioning using cognitive-based interventions and brain stimulation technique. Prof. Mashal also studies verbal creativity in NT and individuals with ASD. Her studies aim to highlight the strengths of participants with special needs and examine how neuroscience can contribute to improving education.