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Neuroscience For Kids. The smell of a flower - The memory of a walk in the park - The pain of stepping on a nail.

Neuroscience For Kids

These experiences are made possible by the 3 pounds of tissue in our heads...the BRAIN!! Neuroscience for Kids has been created for all students and teachers who would like to learn about the nervous system. Discover the exciting world of the brain, spinal cord, neurons and the senses. Use the experiments, activities and games to help you learn about the nervous system. There are plenty of links to other web sites for you to explore. Can't find what you are looking for? Por qué los jefes son jefes, explicado por la neurociencia. Cada empresa requiere de sus trabajadores un tipo de habilidades específicas, que en multitud de casos no son innatas, sino que se adquieren con el tiempo y la experiencia.

Por qué los jefes son jefes, explicado por la neurociencia

Aunque muchos sostengan que los jefes nacen siéndolo y que es difícil aprender a serlo, la neurociencia parece cada vez más empeñada en demostrar que el cerebro humano sufre un proceso de adaptación diferente dependiendo lo que requiera la situación. Es lo que se desprende de diversos estudios como el presentado la última semana por el Instituto de Neurociencia y Medicina del Centro de Investigación Jülich en Alemania, que ha analizado qué partes del cerebro se activan cuando un mánager tiene que tomar una decisión, y cuáles cuando es un empleado el que tiene que hacerlo y ha llegado a la conclusión de que sus procesos mentales son muy diferentes.

Su familaridad con la toma de decisiones hace que las adopten de manera más rápida e intuitiva La importancia de la experiencia La productividad es mayor. Infografia+personalidad+.jpg (1600×1035) What 'Brain Food' Actually Does for Your Brain. "it's just a chemical dosage that goes from your mouth to your brain" - sorry, but that is completely misleading, and in an article purporting to explain how food interacts with the brain, is downright false.

What 'Brain Food' Actually Does for Your Brain

It also ignores information given by the sources you actually quote. Neurotransmitters, with a few exceptions, are composed of protein-like molecules which are digested and absorbed by the gut like any other protein. Neuroscience For Kids. Your Brain in Love. Men and women can now thank a dozen brain regions for their romantic fervor.

Your Brain in Love

Researchers have revealed the fonts of desire by comparing functional MRI studies of people who indicated they were experiencing passionate love, maternal love or unconditional love. Together, the regions release neuro­transmitters and other chemicals in the brain and blood that prompt greater euphoric sensations such as attraction and pleasure. Conversely, psychiatrists might someday help individuals who become dan­gerously depressed after a heartbreak by adjusting those chemicals. Passion also heightens several cognitive functions, as the brain regions and chemicals surge. “It’s all about how that network interacts,” says Stephanie Ortigue, an assistant professor of psychology at Syracuse University, who led the study. Graphics by James W.

Researchers map Phineas Gage's pierced brain. Neuroscience, teaching, psychology and education (Mind, Brain, and Education science) The Brain. Hack Your Brain to Use Cravings To Your Advantage. What Multitasking Does To Our Brains. I can definitely understand how focusing on one task at a time allows you to be more productive.

What Multitasking Does To Our Brains

However, I also believe that you can benefit from taking a break after ~an hour of working on something, and then doing something else. Making progress on multiple different tasks in this way provides a similar feeling of high productivity, but also allows you to get a feel for exactly how much work you have on your plate. Obviously, not every task can be broken up into hour-long work sessions, but if I can diversify what I'm working on, I won't get bored of my work.In terms of making to-do lists, I've found that just making the old-fashioned, linear lists don't quite cut it for me anymore. One method I've found quite useful is the Eisenhower method, which is a 2x2 matrix that organizes your tasks by urgency v.s. importance. It's a nice, visual way to look at your tasks and choose which one to work on based on how necessary it is to complete at that point in time. The Damaging Impact of Abuse on Brain Development. Some 30,000 neuroscientists have converged on the New Orleans convention center, a stone's throw from the French Quarter and overlooking the Mississippi river as it flows into the Gulf.

The Damaging Impact of Abuse on Brain Development

Just as the river always flows downstream, science flows forward toward new understanding and nowhere is it more evident than here. I'm at the annual Society for Neuroscience (SfN) conference, which starts today and ends Wednesday. Each day there are thousands of poster presentations and hundreds of talks, each documenting a new finding about the brain, new evidence for the theories explaining how our collection of neurons works, and what it means for us. This year, SfN selected this blog to document the findings in cognition , behavior and disorders of the nervous system. I am responsible for posting one blog entry per day of the conference. After you're born, the greatest impact on the brain you'll have as an adult comes from the experiences you have in the first years of your life. Stuttering Reflects Irregularities in Brain Setup.

Put on a pair of headphones and turn up the volume so that you can’t even hear yourself speak.

Stuttering Reflects Irregularities in Brain Setup

For those who stutter, this is when the magic happens. Without the ability to hear their own voice, people with this speech impediment no longer stumble over their words—as was recently portrayed in the movie The King’s Speech. This simple trick works because of the unusual way the brain of people who stutter is organized—a neural setup that affects other actions besides speech, according to a new study. Brain Awareness Video Contest. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain. Neuroscience. Neuroscience. The Brain.