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Developing career resilience Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...dopamine, which carries messages between the neurons in your brain. He describes dopamine’s job as being ‘to encourage us to act, either to achieve something good or to avoid something bad’ and explains that ‘motivation happens when your dopamine spikes because you anticipate something important is about to happen’. In a work context, if we can motivate...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...dopamine. People with major depression show a bias of attention towards negative emotional stimuli, and away from positive emotional and reward-related stimuli. Through measuring responses to fearful faces as a ‘negative stimulus’, activity within the amygdala, ventral striatal and medial prefrontal cortex was shown to be increased in people with major depression,...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...dopamine across the neuromuscular junction, which causes the postsynaptic sensory neurons to send an afferent signal to the medullary respiratory centres. The respiratory centres will then send action potentials to the phrenic and intercostal nerves to increase the respiration rate...Blood and the respiratory system: 6.3 Additional neuronal control - The lungs also...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...dopamine – rather than adrenaline and cortisol supporting good sleep. The benefits of exercise in menopause: a summary In menopause, exercise can: reduce the severity of menopause symptoms reduce stress and, therefore, cortisol levels support women in feeling more engaged with and in control of their bodies improve mood and reduce anxiety improve cognitive function...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...dopamine. This can increase energy levels, boost immunity, and help people cope with stress. Studying also helps people learn up-to-date and relevant information which can improve employability. Learning can also be a good distraction from life’s worries (Buchanan and Warwick, 2020). Learners who complete their studies have shown better levels of wellbeing and less...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...dopamine in the mid-brain region. So it’s the sort of thing you get when you see chocolate cake or sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, basically all those visceral motivations produce that response. So the next question is well why does that happen and what we’re seeing in video games is this very rapid schedule of rewards and more than that these rewards are uncertain,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Making social media work in Higher Education
Education & Development

Making social media work in Higher Education

...dopamine have to do with why you keep scrolling on social media? Discussion Understanding how social media is designed to be addictive, to keep you scrolling, can help you to understand how you need to work harder to self-regulate your behaviour. Every interaction you have on social media is intended to maximise the amount of time you spend on these apps. So, it is...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding dyslexia Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...dopamine released in the brain is not dependent on receiving the anticipated outcome.) But what if a situation doesn’t match with our prediction? That’s an interesting result for our brains to encounter, and it’s an opportunity for learning. These traits can be put to good use for encouraging our learners, and engaging more effectively with the exploratory dyslexic...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs