Neuroscience

Gae will present this topic in May 2015.

Neuroscience – Materials

Main Book

• David Rock – Your Brain at Work
• Gae’s summary (of part of the book) is the relevant material for the meeting.

Other Materials

Here’s a podcast on exercising willpower and the difficulties:

https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/all-in-mind-abc-radio-national/id73330911?mt=2&i=315560157

More resources from David Rock can be found here:

http://www.your-brain-at-work.com/resources/index.shtml

A recent piece from Norman Doidge about neuroplasticity and his latest book (he’ll be in Sydney for the Writers’ Festival in May):

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/the-healing-brain/6391744

Books on Neuroplasticity (no need to read – but they’re fascinating)

• Plasticity of the brain: The Brain that Changes Itself – Norman Doidge
• Use of plasticity to heal a set of major brain ‘deficits’: The Woman Who Changed her Brain – Barbara Arrowsmith-Young.