The life of a neuron, from birth to death and beyond, in 6 Chapters. Audience participation allows us to become parts of the nervous system during the day
- Birth- How neurons develop in the embryo. With the help of the audience we discover what happens when we stub our toe; why the pain takes so long to arrive.
- Learning- How memories are made and habits formed. Members of the audience become neurons – excitatory or inhibitory – and learn a skill together. Then discover why the old saying is true: nothing works when people are watching. Don’t be inhibited; this will be exciting in a very real sense.
- Adolescence: The brain changes shape between 13 and 25 yrs. See what an adolescent mind is like from the inside.
- Maturity- How mirror neurons help us live and work together. Discover empathy, mimicry and body language, and how to use them.
- Death- The latest findings on what happens inside neurons to cause brain diseases.
- Afterlife- How the new generation of computer design is inspired by principles discovered from the study of neural networks. We will build a ‘neural computer’ using the audience as neurons as before but wired together a different way.
