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Brain and Mind: Introduction Week One

Brain and Mind: Introduction Week One. With: Kevin M O’Doherty. Introduction. Kevin O’Doherty Health Psychologist CBT Therapist Medico-Legal Expert Lecturer psychology.marbellauniversity@gmail.com Topics related to the module…48 hours reply. Who are You?. In pairs, discuss:

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Brain and Mind: Introduction Week One

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  1. Brain and Mind: IntroductionWeek One With: Kevin M O’Doherty

  2. Introduction • Kevin O’Doherty • Health Psychologist • CBT Therapist • Medico-Legal Expert • Lecturer • psychology.marbellauniversity@gmail.com • Topics related to the module…48 hours reply

  3. Who are You? • In pairs, discuss: • Who are you? • Background, exp, qualsetc? • Why study Psychology? • What is Psychology for you? • Plans for the future? • Partners to feedback to the group

  4. Course Overview • Weeks 1/10 • See Handouts

  5. Interesting Facts about the Human Brain • 3 = the weight of your brain in pounds • 4 to 6 = the number of minutes your brain can survive without oxygen before it starts to die • 10 to 23 = the number of watts of power your grain generates when you’re awake (that’s enough to turn on a light bulb!)

  6. More Interesting Facts • 20 = the percentages of oxygen and blood flow going to the brain • 100,000 = the number of miles of blood vessels in your brain • 1,000 to 10,000 = the number of synapses for each neuron in your brain • 100 billion = the number of neurons in your brain

  7. Myths about the Human Brain • It is grey! • In actuality, though, the living, pulsing brain currently residing in your skull isn't just a dull, bland gray; it's also white, black and red

  8. The effects of Music: • The idea that listening to classical music can increase your brainpower has become so popular that it's been dubbed "the Mozart effect." So how did this myth start? • Mozart certainly can't hurt you, and you might even enjoy it if you give it a try, but you won't get any smarter.

  9. You Get New Brain Wrinkles When You Learn Something • By the time it reaches 40 weeks, a brain is as wrinkled as yours is (albeit smaller, of course). So we don't develop new wrinkles as we learn. The wrinkles we're born with are the wrinkles we have for life, assuming that our brains remain healthy. • Some believe that we get new neurons when we make new memories, but this hasn't yet been proven in mammalian brains like ours.

  10. You Can Learn Through Subliminal Messages • In 1957, Vicary stated that he inserted messages into a showing of a movie in New Jersey. The messages, which flashed for 1/3000th of a second, told moviegoers to drink Coca-Cola and eat popcorn. • But did the messages work? Turns out, Vicary actually lied about the results of his study. Subsequent studies, including one which flashed the message "Call now" during a broadcast on a Canadian TV station, had no effect on viewers.

  11. The Human Brain Is the Biggest Brain • In our "bigger is better" society, then, it might stand to reason that humans should have the biggest brains of all animals, because we're the smartest. Well, not exactly. • The average adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds. The dolphin -- a very intelligent animal -- also has a brain that weighs about 3 pounds on average. But a sperm whale, not generally considered to be as intelligent as a dolphin, has a brain that weighs about 17 pounds

  12. Your Brain Stays Active After You Get Decapitated • Cut off from the heart (and therefore, from oxygen), the brain immediately goes into a coma and begins to die. According to Dr. Harold Hillman, consciousness is "probably lost within 2-3 seconds, due to a rapid fall of intracranial perfusion of blood"

  13. Brain Damage is Always Permanent • Brain damage is an extremely scary thing. For something so mysterious and amazing, the brain can actually be quite fragile and susceptible to a multitude of injuries. Brain damage can be caused by anything from an infection to a car accident, and it essentially means the death of brain cells. • Patients surprise doctors all the time and exceed expectations of what they're able to do days, months and even years later. Not all brain damage is permanent.

  14. We Only Use 10% of our Brain • We've often been told that we only use about 10% of our brains. Famous people such as Albert Einstein and Margaret Mead have been quoted as stating a variation of it. • Brain scans have shown that no matter what we're doing, our brains are always active. Some areas are more active at any one time than others, but unless we have brain damage, there is no one part of the brain that is absolutely not functioning. Here's an example.

  15. Question • After our physical brain dies, is there an aspect of us that lives on?...the mind?, the soul? Something else?...(Opinion)

  16. Individual Task for now • Describe/summarise (in less than 300 words): • What is the brain? • What is the mind? • What is the difference?

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  18. Any Questions? • .

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