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Pop-up lecture
Your brain is more flexible than you think: Emerging Research and the Power of Imagination
The ability to learn a new skill depends on the brain’s innate capacity to change, called plasticity. Brain plasticity results from experience – and we know when trying to learn new skills that practice makes perfect. But what if you’re unable to physically practice? Injured athletes need to practice to maintain their edge, and those who lose function after a brain injury need to practice to recover. Is there another way to learn a skill without physical practice? Emerging research on brain plasticity is showing that imagery can actually help us learn, relearn and recover physical skills.
Shaun Boe is an Associate Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Brain Recovery and Function in the School of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Professions. On Tuesday September 15, Dr. Boe will be giving a pop-up lecture on learning, the use of motor imagery and how we can use technology to better guide motor imagery practice.
Date: Tuesday, September 15
Time: 1 p.m.
Location: Rowe Building - Room 1009
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Dalhousie's Faculty of Health Professions is one of the most diverse faculties of its kind at any university in Canada. Get a sense of some of the research, recent accomplishments and the positive impact they have on our community - and beyond.
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Faculty of Health Professions Dean Will Webster answers our questions in this video interview.
Feature story
Five things you didn't know about the Faculty of Health Professions
Established in the 1960s from a merger of Pharmacy and Nursing schools, the Faculty of Health Professions is one of the largest faculties at Dalhousie and one of the most diverse faculties of its kind at any university in Canada. As we begin our Know Your Dal spotlight, here are five things you might not know about the Faculty of Health Professions, commonly referred to as “FHP."
- We train a huge range of health care professionals — from audiologists to sonographers and everyone in between
- We reside in 12 different buildings and three different campuses
- We’re moving to a state-of-the-art health education building
- Our teaching “dummies” are anything but dumb
- Our people don’t just span campus, but our communities
