Brain Fact Friday on ”Changing Behavior by Understanding Our Brain”

<p>“Many of the most significant public health challenges faced today have a behavioral component. To change individuals’ behavior, we need to understand and change the brain.”<a href='#_edn1'>[i]</a> From Professor Huda Akil, a Syrian-American neuroscientist</p> <p>Welcome back to The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast.  I’m Andrea Samadi, and launched this podcast just over 3 years ago, with a vision to bridge the gap between theory and practice, and help all of us (whether we are a teacher in the classroom, or in the modern workplace) to understand the most current brain research, and how to use it, for improved productivity and results.</p> <p>On this episode we will cover:</p> <p>✔  Why we must understand our brain, in order to change our behavior.</p> <p>✔  2 Brain Facts learned from Dr. Andrew Huberman's most recent podcast on "The Effects of Alcohol on the Brain and Body"</p> <p>✔  Why Chronic Disease Prevention means thinking with our brain health in mind.</p> <p>✔ 4 Steps to change our behavior with our brain in mind.</p> <p>For this week’s Brain Fact Friday, I wanted to tie our past few episodes together, starting with EPISODE #239 where we talked about “Using Neuroscience to Build a Stronger 2.0 Version of Ourselves.”<a href='#_edn2'>[ii]</a>  On this episode we looked at how we can change our identity by reviewing our self-image.  We looked at where our self-image is formed (in the front of our brain) and how people who have stronger pathways in this part of the brain, will have higher, long-term self-esteem, which I think we can all agree would help us to move forward, towards this newer, stronger, 2.0 version of ourselves.</p> <p>Then we looked at the concept of Praxis, or integrating our beliefs with our behaviors, as a way to step into this brand new 2.0 version of ourselves where we can become an entirely NEW person, overriding our old identity, building a new image of our self, over time, with hard work and persistence.  </p> <p>Then, physician and neurologist