Neuroscience Core Concepts: What is “It” in Use It or Lose It?

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We all have heard “Use It or Lose It”. Now, what is “It”? how does “it” work? why is “it” our best (and too often unrec­og­nized) friend?

The Soci­ety for Neu­ro­science (SfN) has just released a user-friend­ly pub­li­ca­tion titled Neu­ro­science Core Con­cepts, aimed at help­ing edu­ca­tors and the gen­er­al pub­lic learn more about the brain.

Descrip­tion: “Neu­ro­science Core Con­cepts offer fun­da­men­tal prin­ci­ples that one should know about the brain and ner­vous sys­tem, the most com­plex liv­ing struc­ture known in the uni­verse. They are a prac­ti­cal resource about:

  • - How your brain works and how it is formed.
  • - How it guides you through the changes in life.
  • - Why it is impor­tant to increase under­stand­ing of the brain.”

You will enjoy read­ing the web page explain­ing in detail 8 Neu­ro­science Core Con­cepts:

1| The brain is the body’s most com­plex organ.

2| Neu­rons com­mu­ni­cate using both elec­tri­cal and chem­i­cal signals.

3| Genet­i­cal­ly deter­mined cir­cuits are the foun­da­tion of the ner­vous system.

4| Life expe­ri­ences change the ner­vous system.

5| Intel­li­gence aris­es as the brain rea­sons, plans, and solves problems.

6| The brain makes it pos­si­ble to com­mu­ni­cate knowl­edge through language.

7| The human brain endows us with a nat­ur­al curios­i­ty to under­stand how the world works.

8| Fun­da­men­tal dis­cov­er­ies pro­mote healthy liv­ing and treat­ment of disease.

Page: Neu­ro­science Core Concepts

You can also Down­load Neu­ro­science Core Con­cepts (PDF, 6 MB), and edu­ca­tors can request a free hard­copy by email­ing education@sfn.org.