After taking this course, you will be able to achieve all of these goals:
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Better understand how the brain works.
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Have some clues as to how diet/microbiota affects our mental health.
- Understand how body posture and breathing affects the brain.
- To get closer to the concept of neuroplasticity and how we can change our brain.
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Know what stress is and our ability to overcome it.
- Better understand what brain silence is and why it is the greatest source of happiness.
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We will have an alternative of how to live the sensations of the body to know ourselves and make better decisions.
Course taught by Dr. Nazareth Castellanos, Degree in Theoretical Physics and PhD in Medicine - Neuroscience - by the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). Master in Mathematics applied to biology and Master in Neurosciences by the Faculty of Medicine of the UAM.
She has worked as a researcher and teacher at the Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience Laboratory of the CTB (Complutense and Polytechnic University of Madrid), at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt and at Kings College in London.
Syllabus of this course:
ANATOMY OF STRESS
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What is stress and anxiety?
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Consequences of chronic stress.
- Stress is an emotion, how does our brain manage it.