SKIT

Lay down, roll over like pillow talk

I think it’s interesting that everyone has a brain
That is not my first time making that statement so I know what some of you are thinking
“Not everyone” But the truth is yes. Everyone. You know it and I know it and even though those people we might not think has brains might not know it. It still remains truth.

Get up, stumble “ oo i got lightheaded” someone asks (STOOG) “are you ok?” Say “yes, im fine. That was weird. Anyway .. “. (Gets people’s sympathetics going. the drama THE DRAMA )

Has anyone heard of brain plasticity?

Our brain’s are doing 50 things for us to be here right now. Such as maintaining a hopefully comfortable internal body temperature.

You know that one person who CAN NEVER be comfortable with the weather “I hate winter I can’t wait for it to be warm outside. summer comes It is TOO HOT i can not do anything im so sluggish!! Can you turn the air conditioning on? Wow it is freezing in here. Can we turn it up? How about to 72?“ Someone chimes in “72 will be wayyyy too warm. How about 68?” NO WAY ok what if we turn it to 70. Is everyone happy? …

your muscles are engaging constantly in just the right way to compensate for every decision and action you have ever made from before you were born. Yes,

Has anyone heard of the cerebellum? It is keeping a data log on every movement you have made and sending out instructions to the rest of your brain to improve through repetition.

Some athletes or artists call this getting in the “zone” when you turn your frontal off and allow the body to do it’s thing. Weird, i know. What’s even more weird… you have never moved your arm in the same direction twice. Or any other body part for that matter.

Today will be covering the basic basic lobes of the brain. (Act like the rest of the talk will be a boring lecutre people didn’t come there to see) The is the Frontal lobe, parietall, temporal, occipital.. (say as fast as possible ) two hemispheres of these that perceive information in completely different ways.. connecting them you have your corpus collosum. Then, you have Broca’s area your wernekes , your pons, medulla,brain stem, thalamus, hypothalamus, pituitary gland, caudate nucleus, hippocampus, amygdala, vestibular system, fastigial nucleus, dorsal vermis. superior and inferior calliculi, and your cranial condyles balancing the whole thing on a snaky stick called your spine. yeah but who actually cares?

What is brain plasticity?

The brain

“May I have a volunteer”
Duel tasking

Getting up from laying down and lightheaded. Explain how getting blood flow to your brain is important for our body to process it’s environment internal and external .. also when blood isn’t getting to your brain, oxygen isn’t getting to your brain. So wouldn’t you think if oxygen isn’t getting to your brain you might feel uneasy as your brain is signaling to your body how to function?

Cerebellum and vestibular balance ACT Tiny crystals on hair up in elevator.
Thinking you are somewhere in space you are not. Have 6 people come up- 3 are spotters and 3 are performing balance with their eyes closed. Ask to tilt head back forward and side to side. See who has a hard time in which positions and then explain that their vestibular system does not like to be in those positions so they are living their life’s possibly avoiding it. “Do you get dizzy?

Degrees of motion and body mapping
Plasticity test
*have volunteer put on head laser and look at dot, turn them in a circle and ask them to land on the dot (for show, tell audience to close their eyes so the laser does not hit them)- its hard to do. Then have them move their head a tiny amount with eyes closed. Can they land on the dot? If not, then move their head for them “ok i am going to help you”, eyes closed, have them feel the distance in their neck and then set them out to make it to the target. still not? Have them open their eyes and let them see the distance and then close eyes and try again. WINNER crowd goes wild.

Include drawn art, spoken word and acting

Give audience an insight and final closing remarks

Team work makes the dream work- if every part of your brain that did different things were in their own departments, our heads would be as big as this room.

“And now your brain has physically changed shape from neuronal growth in learning something new, you’re welcome.”

So next time someone cuts you off in traffic, just know, they may just be brain damaged. Then you can feel bad for them instead of being mad at them.