The Platform: The NeuroLeadership Summit, 2008, NY, morning session

The Twitter: Chocolate, Sex and Bonding with Mommy light up the same area of the Brain!
The Big Idea: The Brain responds in a similar way to physical AND social reward.
The morning session of NeuroLeadership Summit, Day 2 was devoted to the questions concerning the brain [...]

The Platform: NeuroLeadership Summit 2008, Day 1
The Twitter: Psssttt! It’s all connected — brain, body and mind!
The Big Idea: Rethinking leadership from an interdependent whole-brain, whole-body, whole-mind networked point of view!
David Rock, founder of the NeuroLeadership Institute and organizer of both the NY and Sydney meetings this year, noted last evening that today’s [...]

The Platform: NeuroLeadership Summit 2008: Opening Keynote Address
The Twitter: WOW!!!!!!Quantum Mechanics Dates Neuroscience and finds an attractive mate!!!!!!
The Big Idea: Attention Changes the Brain as understood from the standpoint of Quantum Mechanics….
Yawzaa! Talk about brain training for neuro-leaders at the quantum level!!!! The first night of the NeuroLeadership Summit 2008 in New York City has [...]

Dear readers,
News on the home front;
First, commentary continues to flow from Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s talk on Oprah. A neuro-leader if there ever was one. Please enjoy the discussion that ensued on this site.
One of the questions to arise: Should we be devoting our lives to training our brains for bliss, or should [...]

Quick note:
Check out Oprah’s show today or go to her website for the interview with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor along with Dr. Mehmet Oz: www.oprah.com
(See the SpaceSuit Yoga archive of this site for note on Taylor’s talk at TED 2008)

Twitter feed from NPR:  
Yesterday (Oct 13) NPR reported on the success former amputee Dave Savage is having in adapting to his new hand transplant.   Do notice, the term “adaptation” here points to the capacity of Savage’s brain (and central nervous system) to remodel neural networks in order to operate his new hand.
Savage’s story [...]

The Platform: Brain Rules by John Medina, Ph.D.
The Twitter: Catch some ZZZZZs!
The Big Idea: Become a Neuro-Leader: Provide 20 minute, afternoon brain rest periods for your students, workers or colleagues!
…. Picking up on my sleeping pod commentary, I wish to reinforce the idea of catching some “zzzzs” as an antidote to the rise in [...]

Quick blog announcement: I just received an email from Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor noting her talk with Oprah is due to air on
                                                
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The Bodies in Space Award is given to visionary social entrepreneurs and culture changers for brilliance in design innovation and systems thinking, especially with the human body in mind.
Tinkering and collaboration are the midwives of invention and those individuals who dare to bring their questions, their ingenuity, and their diligence in hard work to bear [...]