Could brain circuit measurements lead to changes in how we teach?
Scientists are still trying to unlock the mysteries of how our brain works. In this video, HealthMaker Walter J. Koroshetz, MD, director of the NINDS, discusses how measuring the brain's neural circuits could reveal how we learn.
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But if we could measure the circuit activity and try and develop a method of education based
on the best possible brain circuit outcome, that would really give us a biological basis
to go after education. [MUSIC PLAYING]
On another scale, if you want to figure out how kids learn math best-- so that's a circuit issue.
How does a kid-- how do the mathematical circuits develop when you try and teach a kid how to learn math?
We don't know how those circuits work. So we have our judgments on how to do it best, but if we could measure the circuit activity
and try and develop a method of education based on the best possible brain circuit outcome,
that would really give us a biological basis to go after education. So I think that the BRAIN Initiative to try and get
at this ability to-- if we're successful, and we get the kind of tools we need to measure circuits in humans that gives us
the information that's coming out of the brain that makes us human, that is the substance of our emotions,
our thought processes, then I think it'll be a completely new world.
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