This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. We use a body mass index (BMI) to measure our body's fitness but why don't we use a brain vitality index (BVI) to measure the health of our brain? Neuroscientist Professor Selena Bartlett examines how we can prevent brain aging and teach our brain positive lessons. Professor Selena Bartlett is a Group Leader in Addiction Neuroscience and Obesity at the Translational Research Institute at the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and a Research Capacity Building Professor in the School of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Health, QUT. In 2013, she won the Outstanding Achievement Award and Biotech Research Award and is an Ambassador for the Women in Technology organization. She is passionate about the brain and helping people rewire their brains to unlock habits learnt over a lifetime that are holding them back from reaching their potential. She will discuss Brain Unlocked-how to reach your potential using tools from the latest research in neuroscience. About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

Scientists now understand humans have the capacity to change our brains forever. Professor Selena Bartlett from QUT explains how you can take deliberate action to develop a growth mindset that helps develop key business skills such as decision making, coping with stress, and innovation and creativity. Visit Rowland.com.au communication, digital and creative agency for more news and information http://www.rowland.com.au/ Connect with us: Google+ ► http://google.com/+rowland Facebook ► http://www.facebook.com/rowlandau LinkedIn ► http://www.linkedin.com/company/rowland Twitter ► http://www.twitter.com/rowland_au Instagram ► http://www.instagram.com/rowland_au

Questions and answers with Professor Selena Bartlett after her plenary lecture at the Australasian Neuroscience Conference in Adelaide, December 2019. Video produced by Danimations, shot by Dan and Emma Monceaux, edited by Emma Monceaux and sound mixed by Dan Monceaux.

Listen to Kim and Dr. Selena Bartlett as they talk about Neuroplasticity and how tips like deep breathing can help you control your reptilian brain. Dr. Selena Bartlett presents lectures, seminars, and has designed programs to help government, business, and other organizations improve innovation, decision making, and performance; aid children in learning; assist women and men in strengthening brain health to trim the body; and help retirees in having more vital lives. Her most requested speaking topics are on how to manage stress to grow mindset, embrace change and trim the body; growing leadership mindset; improving team performance; and how adverse childhood experiences shape the brain and what to do about it. Believing this work has the potential to be transformative, even to disrupt the cycle of trauma, poverty, and incarceration, she is a passionate advocate for people who are marginalized. Selena understands that knowing one’s brain drives compassion for other brains.

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Find out more: http://ow.ly/QBtue QUT has opened Australia’s first NeuroSPARK Lab, designed to retrain people’s brains. The lab is led by neuroscientist Professor Selena Bartlett.