Brain Fact Friday on "How to Be a Neuroscience Researcher in 4 Simple Steps"

<p>Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, for Brain Fact Friday and episode #124. If you’ve been listening to this podcast, called Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning, I’m sure you’ve made the connection with the importance of improving our social and emotional skills, in our schools and otherwise called emotional intelligence skills in the workplace with an understanding of how our brain works.</p> <p>This week we interviewed Professor Chuck Hillman, from Northeastern University, and he mentioned that an important concept he would like to see in the future, would be more people like Paul Zientarski, who built his career with the application of Professor Hillman’s brain research.</p> <p>Today’s Brain Fact Friday will teach you how to do this. If you’re interested in how you could be this person in your school or workplace, who could spearhead the implementation of these new evidence-based ideas, I’ll show you how simple it can be so that you can be confident that what you are sharing with your schools or teams is accurate, and not pseudoscience. </p> <p>In 2014, when an educator urged me to add the most current neuroscience research to my programs, I had to quickly learn about the brain and be sure what I was learning was accurate. I didn’t go to school for a degree in Neuroscience which is one route I highly suggest especially through Butler University’s Applied Educational Neuroscience Graduate Program Certificate with Dr. Lori Desautels<a href='#_edn1'>[i]</a>. I went another route, and found the leading neuroscience researcher, Mark Waldman<a href='#_edn2'>[ii]</a>  to teach me all he knew and later joined his Neuroscience Certification Program<a href='#_edn3'>[iii]</a> so I could share the most accurate research with others and stay up to date, since this information is always advancing and changing.</p> <p>This is exactly what Paul Zientarski had to do when he began to learn how the brain works from Professor Hillman’s research. Once you h