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I'm fascinated by the brain. How it works, how it collects and saves new information, how it grows and develops, how things go wrong in diseases like Alzheimer's Disease. I'm going to share my ideas here.



__The Top Ten Things 5th Graders Should Know About Your Brain and Learning__
 * 1) Your emotions affect learning.
 * 2) Sleep affects your learning. You need sleep!
 * 3) Stress affects learning. Long-term, negative stress decreases learning.
 * 4) Your diet affects learning.
 * 5) You need rest.
 * 6) You need breaks.
 * 7) You need repeated, variable practice.
 * 8) The more you use learning, the better you know it.
 * 9) Moving helps you learn.
 * 10) Keeping your heart healthy keeps your brain healthy.

Added on 10/10/10: Scientists are learning more and more that...and how...knowledge and experience change the brain. This is a great video that I watched for my Johns Hopkins class. It looks at research about the brains of London cab drivers who have to create an intricate internal map in order to successfully navigate this busy, crowded, complex city. Researchers found they actually have differences in the hippocampus, especially the experienced cab drivers.

[|Cab Driver Video by National Geographic]