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