Advancements in brain science are revealing new perspectives on how the brain learns.
Recently, I gave a public talk entitled: How to Learn Fast in Challenging Times – at the Limerick Lifelong Learning Festival.
Below you can view a slide summary of my talk where I provide you with the tools and techniques to help you develop your own learning toolkit.
Significant change can be stressful.
It challenges our ability to cope and drains our resilience.
With change comes a new set of challenges including how to take advantage of the change scenario and assert an element of control by managing our emotions.
I was invited to give a talk to staff of the British Embassy in Ireland on the topic of the neuroscience of change.
You can view a slide summary of my talk below.
Why do people experience the same pain differently, and why can the same pain seem worse to a single individual from one day to the next?
Find out the answers in this recent online presentation for the Migraine Association of Ireland.
Slide-deck from presentation: The Effect of Social Media on the Brain – at the Safety and Wellbeing on CyberMedia Conference hosted by the Tipperary Children and Young People’s Services Committee. The Conference provided a forum to discuss social media and its impact on children and young people and marked International Safer Internet Day.
I was delighted to give a public talk in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland for National Drug and Alcohol Awareness Week on the topic Using your brain to beat addiction.
The talk was also open to the University of Limerick, the Limerick Institute of Technology, to members of the public, and to those working in services involved in the area of substance misuse.
You can view a slide summary of my talk below.
Presentation given to the World Medical and Health Games, Graduate Medical School University of Limerick.
Exercise increases ‘neurogenesis’ (growth of neurons) in the hippocampus – a region important for memory and implicated in cognitive ageing.
In this presentation I answer the following questions
inside-the-brain.com 