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TEDxYouthOttawa - Rylan Allemang-Grand - 03/04/10

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2010 · Education

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Rylan Allemang-Grand on "Neuroscience, adolescence and our plastic brain!"

Rylan takes us inside the brain to demonstrate how the fundamental units of the nervous system adapt during adolescence, in the face of learning and experience. 

With the use of modern functional imaging techniques, we are able to watch the brain rearrange its circuitry in order to adapt to the dynamic environment that we live in. Rylan will reveal evidence of how everyone has the potential to change their brain and how important this is during adolescence, and recovery from brain injury. We have known for some time that the brain is the most sophisticated organ in our body. However, the fact that it is constantly changing and reorganizing itself makes it the most complex entity in our universe. Prepare to become a believer!

Presented at TEDxYouthOttawa on March 4, 2010 at Ashbury College in Ottawa, Canada

Video by Adam Langlois, Creative Director, For Youth By Youth (FYBY) News

TEDxYouthOttawa Organizers:
Adam Moscoe
Yusuf Malik
David Millen

www.tedxyouthottawa.org

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