The Neocortex short reading course
Taken from the book The Psychotherapist’s Essential Guide to the Brain.
In this course you will learn:
- The major divisions of the neocortex
- About the occipital lobe and function
- About the parietal lobes and function
- About the temporal lobes and function
- About the frontal lobes and function
- What was phrenology
- And cover three recent studies about the prefrontal cortex and how these findings relate to mental wellbeing and therapy.
This course is $10 AUD and can earn you 1 CE/PD credit.
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The Neocortex (1 CE/PD)
The neocortex is where all our 'higher order' thinking happens. This short reading course will break down the neocortex into divisions that make sense and apply the various functions to psychotherapy.
Module 1 | The Neocortex | |
Unit 1 | The Neocortex Introduction (6 min) | |
Unit 2 | Major Divisions Introduction (8 min) | |
Unit 3 | Occipital Lobe (11 min) | |
Unit 4 | Parietal Lobes (16 min) | |
Unit 5 | Temporal Lobes (5 min) | |
Unit 6 | Frontal Lobes (10 min) | |
Module 2 | Prefrontal Cortex Studies | |
Unit 1 | Brain Activity Buffers Against Worsening Anxiety (6 min) | |
Unit 2 | A “Turbo Charge” for Your Brain? (8 min) | |
Unit 3 | How the cortex assigns credit for causality (8 min) | |
Unit 4 | Phrenology (8 min) | |
Unit 5 | The Neocortex Conclusion (1 min) |