Keyword: brain

Potential educational developments involving neuroscience that may arrive by 2025

Paul Howard-Jones

Educational innovation involving valid neuroscientific concepts is a relatively new phenomenon and the challenges involved are considerable, but it can be expected that progress in this area will... Read more »

TOP KEYWORDS: brain, education, innovation, neuroscience

Biofutures – a selective review of biological discovery prospects and education to 2025

Jon Turney

Thinking about biology and education is tricky because considering the two together involves causes and consequences at many different levels – from molecules to minds. At the moment,... Read more »

TOP KEYWORDS: genes, biology, brain, genome

Educating persons, imaging brains: the potentials of neuroscience for education

John Cromby

Although neuroscience has much to offer education, in recent years its potentials have been somewhat obscured by a climate of unrealistic expectations. Now the ‘neuromyths’ that were prevalent... Read more »

TOP KEYWORDS: brain, neuroscience, special education, society

Understanding the changing adolescent brain

Stephanie Burnett, Catherine Sebastian and Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Recent brain imaging studies have demonstrated that the human brain continues to develop throughout the adolescent years. Although there are differences between male and female teenagers in terms... Read more »

TOP KEYWORDS: brain, neuroscience, adolescence, young people, psychology, development