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Neuroscience 101: Getting Started

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Hello, I'm Michael. Michael Hewitt Gleeson. I'm a cognitive neuroscientist and founder of the School of Thinking. About 40 years ago, which is to get thinking taught and to get lateral thinking taught and to get it put into schools, in the curriculum and so on. My current mission in the school is to get neuroscience taught in primary schools in Australia, which is just a basic understanding of how the brain works. And I think that not only teachers are interested, but also students would be very interested in that. And that's what this course is about. It's based on two of my recent books, neuroscience 101 and The Fourth Brain.

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Neuroscience 101: Getting Started

Neuroscience 101: Getting Started

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Introduction

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The first law of neuroscience: You cannot defy your brain

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Meet the 4th brain: The prefrontal cortex

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Neuroplasticity: The brain’s ultimate upgrade

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The brain as a ‘necktop computer’

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The intelligence trap

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School of Thinking: Teaching ‘thinking instructors’

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Emotions and emotional literacy

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Brain software

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Why do we think the way we do?

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Reflection

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Congratulations

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Dr. Michael Hewitt-Gleeson is an Australian Vietnam Veteran, author, cognitive neuroscientist, and lecturer. He co-founded the School of Thinking in New York in 1979 with Edward de Bono. School of Thinking lessons are exported to over 43 countries every day and have reached over 80 million people worldwide since 1979. During his time living and consulting in New York, the United States government described Dr Hewitt Gleeson as a “national asset”.

Dr Michael Hewitt-Gleeson was honoured as a Melbourne Ambassador by the Premier of Victoria and appointed as a Visiting Academic Fellow in Innovation Thinking at LaTrobe University. He is also an advisor on Leadership and Learning to Melbourne Grammar School. Dr Hewitt-Gleeson’s School of Thinking has disseminated over half a billion lessons since 1979.

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