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After watching this, your brain will not be the same | Lara Boyd | TEDxVancouver


Translator: Eatedal Saii Auditor: Anwar Dafa-Alla
How do we learn if?
And why some of us learn more easily than others?
If as I mentioned, I am Dr. Lara Bond.
I am a researcher in the brain here at the University of British Columbia.
There are questions fascinates me.
(Cheers) (Applause.)
Search in the brain is one of the greatest big prospects
In the understanding of human psychology,
And also taking into account what we make us what it is.
It is a fun time to be a researcher in the brain,
I can persuade you
That I enjoyed Bamta jobs in the world.
What we know about the brain variable rhythm breathtaking.
The more we know and understand more about the brain
It shows that it is not true or unfinished.
A few of the misunderstandings are more obvious than others.
For example, we used to think
After the age of childhood and is unable to change does not change.
It shows that he is far away from the truth.
Another misconception about the brain
You are using parts of it at any time
And it stops when they do not do anything.
Well, this is also true.
Show up at the time of your convenience
Do not think about something, your brain active dramatically.
If there are advances in technology such as magnetic resonance imaging,
This allows us to these discoveries and more.
Perhaps the most fun,
The most interesting and transformation in these discoveries
Is every time you learn new information or skill,
You change your mind.
It’s something that we call the neural flexibility.
Less than 25 years ago, we thought that after puberty,
The only change that is happening in the brain was negative:
The loss of brain cells with aging,
Causing damage, your stroke.
After this, studies have begun to show a large number of
Of reorganization in the adult brain.
The research showed us that followed
That all of our behaviors change the brain.
These changes are not limited to progress with age,
This good news is true?
In fact, it’s always occur.
More importantly,
Re-organization of the brain helps to support the recovery process
After the damage caused to the brain.
The key to all these changes is the flexibility of nerve.
What if you resemble?
If your brain can be changed through three basic ways
To support learning.
And the first chemical method.
If the brain really works through the transfer of chemical signals
Between what we call the nerve cells of the brain cells,
This raises a range of actions and reactions.
If learning to support your brain can increase the quantity
By focusing on these chemical signals
That occur between neurons.
Because this change can happen quickly,
This supports short-term memory
Or improve in the short term in the performance of motor skills.
The second way the brain can be changed to support learning
It is by changing its structure.
If cross-learning, the brain can Agier connections between neurons.
Here, the physical structure of the brain of changing
This takes some time.
This type of changes for long-term memory,
Long-term improvement in motor skills.
These processes interact, and let me give you an example of how this.
We all tried to learn a new skill mobility,
Maybe playing the piano,
Maybe learn to run.
I had the experience of improvement for the better
During one session of training,
The belief “I have managed them”
And then, perhaps come back the next day,
All improvements from the first day have disappeared.
what happened?
Well, in the short term, the brain is able to increase
Chemical signals between nerve cells.
But for some reason, these changes did not include structural changes
Mission to support the long-term memory.
Remember this long-term memories takes time.
And what you see in the short term does not reflect the learning,
It is these physical changes
Which will now support the long-term memories,
Chemical signals, which in turn supports these memories.
Structural changes can also lead to integrated networks of brain regions
Which works as a whole to support learning.
Which can lead to certain brain regions
Significance is very accurate for the actions of
Change your temple or expansion.
If here are some examples.
People are people who read Braille (reading system for the blind)
They have sensory areas in their brains bigger hand than those who did not (reading)
The dominant motor areas, which are located on the left side of the brain,
If you’re a right-wing, it is greater than the other.
The research show taxi drivers in London
Who already had a map of London and Save the Ihlsoa market leave,
They have larger brain areas dedicated to space or memory maps.
Another way can be changed by your brain to support learning
Change functions.
Also used brain regions,
It is becoming more and more excited and easy to use again.
As your brain has these areas that increase in provoke,
The brain will change how and when do these areas.
We see, learning
That all brain activity networks is changing and changing.
If flexibility is supported nerve
Of the chemical, and structural and functional changes
These occur at full brain.
It can occur in isolation from one another,
But dearly occur completely.
With some, they support learning.
And they speak most often.
I told you just how wonderful the neural flexibility in Admgtkm.
Why do not you’ll learn anything Takhtaroh easily?
Why sometimes we fail our children in school?
Why, when we grow up we tend to forget things?
And why people do not completely recover from brain damage?
This is: What are the limits and facilities neuroplasticity?
That if I teach.
I study particularly Maitalq recovery from stroke.
More recently, the rate dropped strokes
Of the third factor leading to death in the United States
The fourth factor to the cause of death.
Good news is true?
But in fact, show
That the number of people who have strokes not diminished.
We are an improvement in keeping people alive after strong strokes.
It shows that it is very difficult to help the brain recover from the stroke.
Honestly,
We fail to develop effective shifts in rehabilitation.
The final outcome of this is that stroke is the main cause
In a long-term disability for adults in the world
Individuals with stroke are smaller
And often they live longer with those disabilities,
The search of the two groups in fact shows
That the quality of life related to health with a number Alkndiyon stroke has decreased
Obviously we have to be better
In helping people recover from stroke.
This is a very large societal problem,
A problem that does not solve it.
If what can be done?
Something is certainly clear:
Best Carrier change nervous flexibility in your brain is your behavior.
The problem is the behavior of the dose, dose of exercise
Required to learn something new and re-learn the old dynamic skill,
Very large.
And how to deliver these large doses of exercise effectively
Is a very difficult problem: an expensive problem, too.
If the trend taken by research
It is the development of treatments ready or preparing the brain to learn.
These include brain simulation exercises, and robots.
But during the research discovered that the biggest obstacle
To develop treatments accelerate the healing process of stroke
Flexibility is the neural patterns vary from person to person.
As a researcher, the difference drives me crazy.
It makes use of a very difficult Statistics
To test your data and your thoughts.
For this reason, medical intervention studies are
Specially designed to bridge the difference.
But in my research, clearly shows
That the most important data in terms of information and front-that we collect
This disparity appears.
If during the study of the brain after a stroke, we have learned a lot,
I think that these lessons very valuable in other ways.
The first lesson is
The main carrier of change in your brain is your behavior,
This serum no neurological flexibility you can Akhaddh.
Nothing is more important than training to help yourself to learn,
The starting point is that you must do the work.
In fact, research has shown
Increasingly difficult, increasingly conflict if it did during the training,
In fact leads to two things to learn more,
And more change in the brain structure.
The problem here is that the neural flexibility can work in two directions.
Can be positive, learn something new,
Improved mobility and skill.
It can be negative, to forget something learned before,
Become addicted to drugs,
You may become chronic pain.
Flexible brain dramatically if
The structurally and functionally through everything you do,
But also through everything you do not.
The second lesson that we have learned about the brain is
There is no single approach can be suitable for everyone to learn.
If there is no recipe for learning.
Let’s take into account the common belief required 10,000 hours of training
To learn and professionalism of a new dynamic skill.
I assure you it is not easy.
for each other,
More training will be taken, and some will be less.
If the formation of the flexible mind is very special
There will be no interference Sinfana as a whole.
This realization forced us to consider something called personalized medicine.
This idea is to improve results
Each individual requires its intervention.
In fact, this idea came from cancer treatments.
And here it has shown that genetics is very important in matching
Specific types of chemotherapy with certain forms of cancer.
Research shows that this can be applied to recovery from stroke.
There are specific characteristics of structural and functional brain
Call it vital indicators.
These indicators help prove to be a very
It helps us we match
Certain types of treatments of individuals with two patients.
Data from the laboratory suggests a combination of vital signs
Best prediction by changing the neural flexibility and forms of recovery after stroke.
This is not a surprise, given the complexity of the human brain.
But I also think that we must take this concept on a larger scale.
Because of the distinctive structural and functional brain in each of our brains
What we have learned about neuroplasticity after stroke is applied to everyone.
Behaviors that we apply in our daily mission.
Each one of them to change your mind.
And we think we have to take into account
Not to personalize medicine, but the diagnosis of learning
Characterize your brain will affect you
As a student and also a teacher together.
This idea helps us to understand
Why are some children who can Azahroa in traditional educational conditions
And some do not
Why do some of us can learn languages ​​easily
However, some can be picking up any sport and outperform.
If when you leave this room today,
Dmagkm will not be back as it was in the morning when you came.
I think that this is absolutely gorgeous.
But each one of you Sagier his brain about different.
Understand these differences,
These individual forms, this change of diversity
It will enable significant progress in neuroscience:
It will allow us to develop new and more effective interventions,
And allow the learners of matches and teachers,
Patients and interventions.
This does not apply to recovery after stroke,
He applied all of us, as parents, teachers, as administrators,
And also because you are in TEDx today, Ktmwalimon a lifetime.
Adersoa how and what you want to learn better.
This repeated most of the health Odmgtkm behaviors,
Smashing those behaviors and habits harmful.
the exercise.
Learning is to do the work required by your brain.
If best strategies will be varied between individuals.
You know, it would be varied between individuals.
If for you, you learn music can be very easily,
But learning skiing, much harder.
I hope that you leave today
With a new estimate of how much greatness Admgtkm.
You flex your mind and constantly re-configured by the world around you.
I understand everything you do,
Everything faces, and everything Agier testing your brain.
This can be the best, but it can be the worst.
If when you leave today they come out and build the brain that you want.
Thank you very much.
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