This year’s American Art Therapy Association conference (coming up next week!) places a heavy emphasis on neurological understanding. Each year there is so much new research, information and discoveries, making it hard to keep up with current understanding on this topic. If you’d like to brush up on your understanding of neurological development, mechanisms, anatomy, as well as the impact of new research on philosophical questions, check out this podcast by Ginger Campbell MD.
The podcast is impressively clear- especially if you start from the beginning and continue in consecutive order, since explanations are always provided in the current or previous episodes, preparing the listener for more advanced topics. It does help to have some basic knowledge of the brain before you begin, although I’m sure if you’re willing to look certain things up (ie: a picture of a neuron and its parts) it will make the information easier to understand.
Here are some topics I enjoyed listening to so far (I haven’t gotten through them all): #4- The Great Brain Debate- Nature vs. Nurture, #11- Emotions, #12 Memory, and #13 Unconscious Decisions.