Your Incredible Brain: Part One
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Your Incredible Brain
How does the brain work?
A hundred years ago, the only way scientists couldexamine the human brain was with a corpse.
Today, scientists can look inside aliving brain and watch it work.
What’s going on in there?
What’s going on in there?
When you think, connections form inyour brain
The connections in your brain are like pathways
Pathways in the brain = learning
Your brain changes as you learn
For example, if a man drives a taxi for many years
+ =
After a few years, the “finding your way around” part of hisbrain will be much bigger than it was before!!
+ =Taxi driver brain!!
TAXI
Brains changeas you use them!
Watch this video to see how much a brain canchange: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSu9HGnlMV0
Pause to discuss.
Habits shape your brain
So choose your mental habits
Pathways in the brain = learning
Or ‘unlearn’ something. Let the path grow over…
Choose your habits
or change your habits
Choose your habits
Change your brain!
You can break new groundand create CHANGE!
Repeat, repeat, repeat = new pathways
Break negative habits
Or add some helpful ones