NeuronUP
NeuronUP. Web platform of cognitive rehabilitation
AMUNE, Neuroscience Association of Murcia arises from the passion for Neuroscience. The objective of its members is to learn and disseminate about the great tree that is Neuroscience. Each one of them offers, from their specialty, new information, ideas and projects that enrich the rest of the association.
Stress has been dubbed the “health epidemic of the 21st century” by the World Health Organization. Since early studies, stress was defined as General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) or the defense response of the body or the psyche to injury or prolonged stress (Selye, 1956). Subsequently, numerous authors have attempted to define stress. There is no doubt that the …
For decades, educators have been teaching and educating without knowing the neural connections formed in children at each developmental stage. During their academic and professional training, educators spend part of their time planning, programming, and trying to motivate students to develop their personal qualities, abilities and talents to the maximum. However, until recent years and thanks to pedagogical renewal movements, no one had given any thought to children, their brains, and the relevance of their brains in teaching and learning.
Human adaptation to environmental demands is based on memory, one basic cognitive ability. In fact, this cognitive process is studied across different fields of knowledge, not only psychology. Since the unitary concept of memory—which defined memory as a unitary, indivisible system—was abandoned, research studies, undertaken in different disciplines and methodologies, are increasingly exploring different mnemonic systems. These have been collected and classified, both in classical and current approaches, according to two main factors: memory duration, on the one hand; and the type of information stored, on the other.
