“Basically, if you can learn to control your own inner experience, then you can fundamentally alter your experience of life,” says cognitive [thought] neuroscientist Dr. Lisa Saksida.
This international calendar of events will guide you to special events happening offline in your community during Brain Awareness Week, March 10-16.
Online, learn more about things like sugar addiction, smoking and schizophrenia, migraines, how stress hormones affect depression (did you think it was all about serotonin?) or the nitty gritty world of astrocytes and axons: I highly recommend the Brain Briefings series offered by the Society for Neuroscience. These two-page publications (download PDFs or get a free subscription by post) are written for a general audience but pack a lot of potent info and are nicely designed.
Here’s a lovely short video of Dr. Saksida doing yoga while explaining why there is no division between mind and body, how both thoughts and chemicals can alter brain structure, and why love is always love no matter how it’s interpreted.
Click here to watch the video…
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How the brain works and how we can regulate it in everyday stressful situations is often overlooked in “structural” brain education.
Fortunately, there are innovative ways of teaching “functional” brain education in a way even pre-teens are excited to learn. Since 2002, a classroom demonstration project has been evaluated by over 700 4th-6th graders learning brain-based coping skills for pre-teens.
Today, that classroom project has been translated into a “virtual classroom” Coping Skills for Kids & Brain Works Project available free on the website, www.copingskills4kids.net. We expect that thousands more pre-teens, their parents and teachers will be learning practical skills that can help develop more healthy, confident and self-managed students.
Wouldn’t it be nice as kids enter adolescence and middle school that they come equipped with stronger self-management abilities, coping competence and brain function awareness? That dream is now a reality with a website being launched during Brain Awareness Week.
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How the brain works and how we can regulate it in everyday stressful situations is often overlooked in “structural” brain education.
Fortunately, there are innovative ways of teaching “functional” brain education in a way even pre-teens are excited to learn. Since 2002, a classroom demonstration project has been evaluated by over 700 4th-6th graders learning brain-based coping skills for pre-teens.
Today, that classroom project has been translated into a “virtual classroom” Coping Skills for Kids & Brain Works Project available free on the website, www.copingskills4kids.net. We expect that thousands more pre-teens, their parents and teachers will be learning practical skills that can help develop more healthy, confident and self-managed students.
Wouldn’t it be nice as kids enter adolescence and middle school that they come equipped with stronger self-management abilities, coping competence and brain function awareness? That dream is now a reality with a website being launched during Brain Awareness Week.
