Our mandate is to maximize individual cognitive capacity in a fun, friendly and interactive way.

Maximum Capacity: Strategies for Cognitive Enhancement applies sound, evidence-based, scientific research to help individuals improve or maintain their cognitive abilities.

Led by company founder Dr. Heather Palmer, Maximum Capacity’s team of cognitive rehabilitation specialists and facilitators work together to assist groups and individuals improve the way they think. Improving memory, organization, planning, and the ability to multitask are some of the areas we focus on in our presentations, group seminars and individual training sessions.

Those who can benefit from cognitive enhancement services include:

• Healthy seniors combating the normal aging process
• Cognitively impaired individuals affected by brain-related disease or injury (e.g. Alzheimer’s Disease, traumatic brain injury, stroke, etc.)
• Cancer patients experiencing cognitive changes resulting from diagnosis and/or treatment
• Groups or individuals wanting to stay mentally on top of their game in the corporate world

Maximum Capacity is the brainchild of Dr. Heather Palmer (PhD Neuropsychology), who has over 15 years of scientific and clinical experience in the area of brain-behaviour relationships. She obtained her doctorate from the University of New South Wales, Australia, and carried out a postdoctoral fellowship in neurocognitive rehabilitation at the Rotman Research Institute. This fellowship resulted in a series of 5 papers which have recently been published in the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society (2007).

Her original interest in this field of research stemmed from a life-long respect and admiration for the elderly. She was struck by the fact that although seniors are leading longer, healthier, more active lives, they are not always able to enjoy this time due to problems associated with cognitive deterioration.

After researching, developing and implementing clinical studies relating to cognitive rehabilitation, Dr. Palmer now devotes her time to applying what is being learned through science to help all people, not just seniors, improve the way they think, feel and function.