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Conference Session 1: Citizen Brain: Brain Health Through Comedy and Empathy
Thursday, October 13, 2022, 7:00 PM - 8:45 PM PDT
Category: Conferences

Citizen Brain: Brain Health Through Comedy and Empathy 

Session Facilitator: Melissa Cannon, PhD

Presenter: 

  • Josh KornbluthSenior Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, Global Brain Health Institute

Summary:

At the Global Brain Health Institute, Josh Kornbluth immersed himself in the study of brain disease and wondered if our society was suffering from political dementia. The discovery of the “empathy circuit” in the brain might be the cure. Can a neurotic storyteller, who flunked every science class in college, spark a science-based revolution of empathy?

Learning Objectives:

  • Participants will learn the evidence-base about the "empathy circuit" in the brain and will participate in an exercise to strengthen their own empathy circuits.
  • Participants will see connections between brain science and social justice.

Continuing Education Credits

This conference session has been approved for 1.5 CE credits (NASW Oregon Chapter) and 1.5 AFH training credits. There is a $10 fee per session for NASW credits. Regular Certificates of Attendance can also be issued. To receive a certificate, attendees must attend the session(s) for their entire length and complete a post-session evaluation survey.

This is the first of four sessions of OGA's 2022 virtual conference. You can register for individual sessions or, at a discount, for the entire conference series. For an overview of all sessions, please visit the conference page.

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Josh Kornbluth has been doing autobiographical monologues for over three decades. He has also written and starred in two feature films, Haiku Tunnel and Love & Taxes, both directed by his brother Jacob Kornbluth. For two years he hosted The Josh Kornbluth Show at KQED, San Francisco's public television station. For the past several years he has been a Senior Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute, based at the University of California, San Francisco, and has been both performing and making videos about brain science and social justice, under the title "Citizen Brain" (citizenbrain.org). Mr. Kornbluth lives in Berkeley with his wife, a retired schoolteacher; their son recently graduated from UC Santa Cruz, majoring in filmmaking. You can find more information at joshkornbluth.com.


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