Emotional Learning

"In her book The Woman's Second Guide To Adulthood, former Ms. editor Suzanne Braun Levine writes about the brain changes that occur in people past fifty. Post-fifty brains undergo a growth spurt in the medial temporal lobe, the area associated with emotional learning. This growth, present at no other time apart from during adolescence, was discovered entirely by accident.

"Dr Francine Bene was researching schizophrenia at Harvard Medical School, when she discovered two significant increases in myelin growth (the fatty nerve fibre coating that speeds up connection between nerve cells); the first 100% leap happens during teenagehood, with the second 50% ("a huge leap") increase occurs during middle age. Experience becomes wisdom."

Via Dustbury.

I went looking for picture to accompany this post, but I didn't have much luck. Google "emotional learning" and you get a tsunami of educational posters for children. Google "myelin" and you get icky biological images. So we fall back and punt.


Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion (Official HD Video)
Aerosmith
Can you believe that this song came out in 1975?

Update August 2022 replaced missing video.