Your Brain in Action
There are many myths about the brain, and I always assumed most of them were true. A website called BrainFacts.org calls these Neuromyths.
Examples of popular myths include: the bigger your brain, the smarter you are; drinking alcohol kills brain cells; you only use 10 % of your brain; and more.
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal on the aging process lists other myths concerning the aging process, such as: cognitive decline is inevitable, older workers are less productive, and creativity declines with age.These are largely untrue for the majority of people.
To learn more about the brain, join Dr. Denise Henriques from York University, Sensorimotor Control Lab, on January 21st at Toronto Reference Library at 6:30pm in the Beeton Auditorium. She will be speaking about the brain's ability to control movements and how the brain repairs itself.
This talk is part of the lecture series, Neuroscience: How Your Brain Lives, Works … And Dies, presented in collaboration with York University's Faculties of Science and Health.
Toronto Reference Library has a substantial collection of material on the brain, which can be found in the Business, Science and Technology Department on the third floor. Here is a sampling of titles:
Brains Way of Healing: Remarkable discoveries & Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity, by Norman Doidge
Consciousness and the brain: deciphering how the brain codes our thoughts, by Stanislas Dehaene. Also an eBook
Explaining abnormal behavior : a cognitive neuroscience perspective, by Bruce Franklin Pennington
The neuroscience of freedom & creativity : our predictive brain, by Joaquin Fuster
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