YOUR BRAIN AT WORK Putting It All Together: Learning For Work And Life Putting It All Together: Learning For Work And Life On The Job Brain Work How Well Did You Learn? Okay, here's that quiz we promised earlier. 1. Dendrites are Extremely long teeth Nerve fibers in the brain Hair fibers in the brain 2. The brain stops adding and modifying its synapses when You graduate from high school You drink alcohol to excess You die 3. "Excitatory" messages from neurotransmitters happen when You watch a closely fought sporting event Handsome couples slow-dance to Barry White music Neurotransmitters relay electrical impulses along brain circuitry 4. The adolescent brain is Inactive Hyper-plastic No longer growing 5. LTP stands for Long-term potentiation, the mechanism by which a long-term memory is created Long-term potentiation, the process by which brain cells divide Loosely translated poetry 6. Talking about something you just learned Triggers different representations of the information in your brain Clears the room Helps to drive the information from your brain 7. Old dogs Can learn new tricks if you punish them Can learn new tricks if you fortify their diet and offer them behavioral enrichment Aren't good for much of anything 8. Older people are better able to regulate their emotions because They no longer exercise vigorously They've been there, done that Their prefrontal cortexes, their centers for impulse inhibition, are exerting more control over the more emotionally responsive amygdala They are senile 9. "Self-directed neuroplasticity" is The ability of an individual to alter brain activity by the practice of focusing attention in constructive ways Shown to help people with obsessive-compulsive disorder A do-it-yourself clay modeling technique 10. You can increase your attention density by Creating a mental image of desired behavior Making a list of all the problems in your life Losing weight

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