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Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...Neuroscience of Creativity, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press. Burkus, D. (2014) The myths of creativity: The truth about how innovative companies and people generate great ideas, San Francisco, Jossey-Bass. Burkus, D. (2015) The myths of creativity workbook [Online]. Available at https://davidburkus.com/ resources/ the-myths-of-creativity-workbook/ (Accessed 22 January...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introduction to adolescent mental health Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...neuroscience and neuropsychology. You’ll explore many of these themes next, through a ‘neuroscience lens’...Session 2: Understanding adolescence: 2 The adolescent brain - Understanding more about adolescent brain development can help you to understand how to support a young person’s mental health. Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...Neuroscience, 20. Copyright © 1997 by Annual Reviews Inc. All rights reserved © Holly, R. et al. (1997) ‘Neurobiology of speech perception’, Annual Review of Neuroscience, 20. Copyright © 1997 by Annual Reviews Inc. All rights reserved Figure 7 Categorical perception of /ba/ versus /da/ as a function of change in a computer-generated speech signal. The signal is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...neurosciences and mental health. Focusing on anxiety, you will consider key issues concerning diagnosis, causes and interventions. You will also learn how to evaluate news items, and to go behind the headlines and begin to explore some of the more contemporary and controversial findings within the field...This free advanced level course, Exploring anxiety, serves as an...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...Neurosciences, 32(1), pp. 2–8. Hansen, B. H., Oerbeck, B., Skirbekk, B. et al. (2018) ‘Neurodevelopmental disorders: prevalence and comorbidity in children referred to mental health services’, Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 72(4), pp. 285–291. Harpin, V. A. (2005) ‘The effect of ADHD on the life of an individual, their family, and community from preschool to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...neuroscience, and infinity. There are opportunities to check your learning throughout the course. At the end of each week, there is a quiz to help you check your understanding. And, if you want to receive a formal statement of participation, at the end of Weeks 4 and 8 there is a quiz which you need to pass. You can read more on how to study the course and about badges in...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...neuroscience of how to increase awareness in a brain stalled in limbo by stimulating the thalamus. Armed with this understanding, Schiff has provided insight into the paradoxical discovery that some patients in vegetative states can be awoken with a sedative, zolpidem. One of the best-known cases is the South African Louis Viljoen, who had been left vegetative by a road...
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Article 15 mins
Making sense of ourselves
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of ourselves

...Neuroscience. 7:413. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00413. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Figure 7: Asset ID 205121 Copyright © Erika Hammerschmidt Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs