The Brain: A User's Manual

 

Called to Question

presents

The Brain: A User’s Manual

with return guest speaker

Stephen Brown, Ph.D.

(Stephen is a professor of Psychology at Red Deer Polytechnic. He completed his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience in 2015 at Leiden University (The Netherlands). His dissertation focused on the role of the locus coeruleus, a small brainstem nucleus, and noradrenaline (a signalling chemical in the brain) in attention and learning.)

“Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity,” said the neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran. 

Our brain consists of about 86 billion neurons and 87 billion glial cells; astronomers have estimated the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy to be about 100 billion, so we carry a comparable number of nerve cells in our heads. In this meeting, I’ll give an overview of the human brain and its parts, after which we will discuss some neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s and what they have taught us about human cognition.  This is an opportunity to ask anything you ever wanted to know about the brain but were too afraid to ask.

Date and Time:

Saturday, April 23rd, 2022 at 7pm

The Green Flag Of Surrender

 Called to Question

presents

The Green Flag Of Surrender

with return guest speaker

Dayle Binet

(Dayle Binet is currently an 8 year member of the City of Calgary Police Service and currently holds the position of School Resource Officer in High Schools. Prior to that Dayle was an Associate Pastor at the church she helped start in the town of Okotoks, where she still resides with her children. During her time in Church Leadership roles Dayle has held positions of Youth Director, Music Director, and taught at a Bible College and has had the opportunity to travel to several countries with both youth and music teams to provide food relief, assist with building and other projects. Her greatest passion is relationships.)

Surrender! There is no other word for it. It’s hard, sometimes seems impossible, imposing its will on you. It’s awkward, it’s deep, but it’s more necessary to every aspect of life than we care to admit. Surrender is less about giving up and more about opening up. It is a green flag. 

(I, Dayle, share out of the middle of this journey, not out of any level of achievement.)

Date and Time:

March, Saturday 26, 2022  at 7pm

Coffee and snacks provided.