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Inside The Creative Brain
The document discusses the creative brain, highlighting its structural characteristics and how creativity is influenced by environmental factors and brain function. It outlines traits of creative individuals and emphasizes the importance of education and mentoring in fostering creativity. Additionally, it examines the relationship between creativity, mental health, and finding meaning in life.
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- 1. http://creativethumbl.jpg Inside the CreativeBrain Professor Billy O’Connor William.OConnor@UL.ie Head of Teaching and Research in Physiology Graduate Entry Medical School University of Limerick Ireland
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- 3. THE BRAIN’S VITALSTATISTICS Adult weight Adult size Number of neurons About 100 billion neurons Number of synapses About 100 trillion
- 4. HOW DO WEACQUIRE CREATIVITY? Certain parts of the brain govern specific functions
- 5. THE BRAIN ISSHAPED BY ENVIRONMENT Enriched enviornment Deprived environment = Challenge, = Avoidance, autonomy, complexity, a connection dependence, monotony, isolation, between reward and effort. low expectations. Credit: NYU Langone Medical Center
- 6. CREATIVE TRAITS Creativity : The work and lives of 91 eminent people 1. Energy & drive yet sleeps a lot 2. Smart yet naïve 3. Playful yet disciplined 4. Imaginative yet rooted in reality 5. Introverted yet extraverted 6. Shy yet assertive 7. Male yet female - tolerance of ambiguity 8. Rebellious yet conservative 9. Willingness to take risks 10.Passionate yet objective 11.Aware of the importance of luck 12.Not interested in past accomplishments 13.A sensitivity to pain & loss
- 7. CREATIVITY INVOLVES MAKINGDECISIONS The orbitofrontal cortex (arrow) responds to mistakes that change behaviour. The feeling that things have turned out differently than expected. The feeling that a decision needs to be made. IMMATURE (UPSIDE DOWN VIEW) MATURE This brain area matures later in humans compared with other brain areas. Thus education and mentoring is essential for young innovators.
- 8. WHY DOES THEBRAIN SEEK CREATIVITY? Creativity in a crisis – the hallmark of the human condition
- 9. CAN DRUGS ENHANCECREATIVITY? Dentrite Soma Axon Terminal
- 10. CAN EXERCISE ENHANCECREATIVITY? Areas affected in AD Areas affected by normal aging Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A 104(13):5638-43 (2007). http://www.sfn.org/index.aspx?pagename=publications_rd_alzheimers Exercise increases ‘neurogenesis’ (growth Warmer colours indicate higher levels of of neurons) in the hippocampus - a region nerve growth factor in the hippocampus important for memory and implicated in of [A] exercising animals compared to cognitive aging. [B] sedentary animals - blue indicates the lowest level.
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- 12. CREATIVITY & MENTAL HEALTH Man’s search for meaning The outstanding feature of human beings is free will. ‘He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.’ Nietzsche.’ Logotherapy = the will to meaning (purpose) The three ways to meaning 1. Creating a work, doing a deed. 2. Experiencing something or encountering someone, love. 3. Our approach to suffering.
- 13. "I am neitherespecially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious." -Albert Einstein
- 14. INSIDE THE CREATIVEBRAIN Discussion & Questions