Course curriculum

    1. Introduction

    2. What is a predictive brain?

    3. More on our predictive brains

    4. Brain basics: Neurons and glia

    5. Importance of early adaptations

    6. A few more thoughts on the predictive brain

    7. Lisa Feldman Barrett on how brains predict, and in so doing 'make' reality

    8. Use it or lose it and predictions summarised

    1. Introduction: Why not just in the head?

    2. Stress the body and emotional regulation

    3. 4 (or 5) E brain: Embodied, enactive, extended, embedded and emotive

    4. Embodied brain and nervous system

    5. Polyvagal theory and the body

    6. Vagus nerve

    7. Neurochemicals. Oxytocin

    8. Dopamine

    9. Hormones, neurochemicals and peptides, what is important?

    1. A young brain being sculpted, with myself and Sue Gerhardt

    2. Neurons and neurobiology

    3. Neurons and synaptic connections being fired are how we form in adaptation to our environments

    4. Here is a visual demonstration of some key brain areas

    5. Thoughts on neurons, connecting and pruning

    6. Recap on pruning and brain development

    7. Affirming why sculpting and pruning are important

    1. Lisa Feldman Barrett and others on Brains and culture

    2. Is the amygdala the fear centre? Not according to Lisa Feldman Barrett.

    3. Early brain and language development

    4. Brains are shaped by culture: an example

    5. Early cultural learning: This is a lesson that is also in the course about culture and children's development

    6. More on perspective

    1. Chapter introduction

    2. Empathy and prefrontal areas

    3. Empathy prefrontal

    4. Prefrontal damage

    5. ACEs and how trauma can look like ADHD (from the film resilience)

    6. Recap on early brain development and its importance

    1. Introduction to the hemispheres

    2. Some explanations and older experiments

    3. McGilchrist left right

    4. Leftward turn?

    5. Optimism and pessimism and hemispheres

    6. A brief moment from youtube of McGilchrist describing hemispheric differences

    7. Final words on left right hemispheres

    8. Default Mode network and salience

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