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Susan Greenfield: The Future of the Brain

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Making the Most of the Digital World

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Baroness Susan Greenfield: Changing An End to a Means

In 1964 the writer Isaac Asimov predicted life 50 years on, ‘Even so, mankind will suffer badly from the disease of boredom....and I dare say that psychiatry will be far and away the most important medical specialty in 2014. The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.’

In order to make the most of a culture geared to ‘serving a machine’, we need to harness insights from neuroscience to devise commercial and educational strategies where true individuality, and individual insight, can flourish, - indeed where creativity isn’t an outcome reserved for an elite, but is a realistic expectation for all 21st Century citizens. But where do we start, if we are to understand what an individual ‘mind’ is, in the first place? Neuroscience could hold the key...

Humans occupy more ecological niches than any other species on the planet because of the superlative ability of our brains, compared with those of any other animal, to adapt to the environment. Our brains become highly personalized post-natally by the development of unique configurations of connections between the brain cells that characterize the growth of the human brain after birth, personalizing it into a ‘mind’ that is in constant dialogue with the environment.

Neuroscience can give valuable insights by offering a perspective at the level of the physical brain of how we might feel and think in unprecedented ways. If we are indeed anticipating more decades of long and healthy life than ever before, we need to understand, for example, the alleged efficacy of mindfulness at the level of the physical brain, the possible threats posed by the digital world to emotions and well-being, and then devise the best ways for optimising fulfilment of each individual’s potential.

We live in a world of concern for a global social networking profile, a world of instant views and thoughts read out in a virtual stream of consciousness. It’s a two-dimensional world of only sight and sound yet offering instant information, connected identity, diminished privacy and here-and-now experiences so vivid they out-compete the real world of three dimensions and five senses. This new culture and way of life is unprecedented and as such, is inevitably having an unprecedented affect on each individual human brain.

Nowadays the digital technologies impact on every sector of our professional and private lives, encompassing goods and services, insurance and risk management, the media, leadership, education and ultimately most of domestic and international policy planning. However, social networking sites could be transforming the way we see our own identity and relations with others; video-games may be having an effect on attention, aggression, and even addictive behaviour patterns; search engines could be impacting on how we learn and differentiate information from knowledge.

How will our culture and life-style adapt to a premium on the arguable features of a screen–based mentality, - such as a craving for sensation, short attention span and diminished frames of reference? My suggestion is that individual adaption will take the form of a more child-like scenario of literal and simplified events/characters/images where premium is based on direct and immediate experience, - the world of Pokemon Go. Then there’s complementary question of how will culture and a new type of environment could develop a stronger sense of individual identity, reflective thought and the ability to make connections, - to join up the dots in a new way.

The digital world is arguably, for many, an end in itself, presenting a parallel life-style that over-rides that of the real world, and on which many will chose to spend their time and money. But how might this powerful digital environment be turned into a means to a much more fulfilling end? In order to make the most of a culture currently geared to ‘serving a machine’, surely the answer is to foster creativity, novel thinking for everyone in both the humanities and the sciences.

According to Baroness Susan Greenfield, in order to achieve this we need to be able to devise an environment and educational strategies for converting the fragments of isolated pieces of information of the screen into an interconnected system of knowledge. Only by joining up the dots into cohesive conceptual frameworks, will original thought and individual insight be able to emerge and flourish. Find out more about Baroness Susan Greenfield here.

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Susan Greenfield Spoke at Riyadh Teacher’s Forum

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Equipping Teachers with Better Tools for the 21st Century

Read the latest Susan Greenfield blog. Professor Greenfield is a neuroscientist based in Oxford whose work in psychology has been focused on uncovering many of the most elusive questions on consciousness and the brain. As a researcher, she has devoted considerable time towards helping people who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s though new research that aims to find new mechanisms in the brain that may be linked to these degenerative diseases. An author and a broadcaster, she is currently at the helm of biotech company Neuro Bio.

Susan Greenfield spoke at the Riyadh Teacher’s Forum in August. The event was designed to help affect and accelerate changes in the country’s education system. Local teachers and those coming from other countries have gathered in Riyadh in order to share their expertise and experiences with their colleagues. During the forum, they discussed the best practices in a wide array of issues from engaging parents in teaching in the 21st century.

The forum lasted for three days with 800 teachers from throughout the country attending, along with a hundred other teachers from 30 other countries around the globe. This was an effort from the Education Ministry along with the leadership of the country’s support and in collaboration with the OECD to foster cooperation among education departments in the international scene.

Issues that concern the educational system were raised during the forum to help the attendees benefit from experiences gathered from international participants. The outcomes are then going to be studied whole the experience from the event will also be evaluated. The event served as a setting for a civilised, positive dialogue to also support the capabilities of teachers in the country and also deepen their professional and scientific experiences.

Susan Greenfield has delivered various lectures keynote talks and speeches for various organisations. She has talked about various sectors including technology, finances, media, human resources, and education. Understanding the mind along with how it has evolved is relevant to audiences regardless if they are from the private or the public sector. From nurturing leadership, inspiring creativity, solving issues in the workforce, as well as understanding consumers, her involvement in the forum plays a very crucial towards realising the goal of the event at better equipping teachers with the right tools for them to be more effective in the 21st century.

Learn more about the intricacies of the mind, the brain, and consciousness by reading about Baroness Susan Greenfield online here. You can also follow the Baroness Susan Greenfield Twitter page here and visit Baroness Susan Greenfield SCI page here.

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Susan Greenfield to Take Part on International Stress Day

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Correlation Between Hi-Tech and Hi-Stress Discussed

Read the latest Susan Greenfield blog. Baroness Greenfield is an Oxford-based scientist, researcher, broadcaster and neuroscientist. She is at the helm of a multi-disciplinary research group that is focused on exploring novel mechanisms in the brain that could be linked to neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Her work on psychology has been focused on uncovering elusive questions concerning the brain and consciousness. She is presently the CEO of Neuro Bio, a biotech company which she founded in 2013.

In participation with the International Stress Awareness Day, Susan Greenfield is being interviewed by Tom Meyers as part of the resources person in the upcoming event. The Free Online Stress Summit will take place on November 7, 2018, and will be focused on the theme ‘Does Hi-Tech Cause Hi-Stress.

The theme has been chosen by ISMA or the International Stress Management Association in the UK. The event focuses on the impacts of technology on life at present. While it is a fact that technology has made such a huge difference in people’s lives, it is also right to debate on both the positive and negative effects that it may cause, along with how it can also be harnessed fully to contribute towards one’s advantage.

What the hosts are hoping is to contribute towards this very important debate through conversations that are meaningful and insightful with international experts on a topic that needs everybody to be concerned with. This is a time where new technologies are emerging and are reshaping the scope, complexity, and the speed of the world. How people will cope and remain healthy despite the fast-changing world that they are faced with may or may not lead to high stress and this is where the point of the discussion during the summit will be focused on.

In an excerpt from the interview, Baroness Greenfield discussed how people seem to have developed an addiction to the mobile phone these days. It has reached a point where the phone has become a part of the body where people need to constantly be holding it, be near it, or not letting it out of sight. Some would even admit to feeling uncomfortable when they see other people holding their mobile phone. As this particular technology becomes more miniaturised and more under the ski, it becomes one of those examples that will extend the notion of dependency and addiction to technology.

Learn more about the summit and listen to the full interview by reading about Susan Greenfield online here. You can also follow the Susan Greenfield Twitter page here and visit Susan Greenfield SCI page here.

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