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Neuromyth 101

Neuromyth : Once "unintelligent," always one. Fact : The brain of a "normal" child is a super biological computational organ capable of improvement across lifespan in an enriched environment reinforced with positive motivation. Questions needing answers : Is your child in an enriched learning environment? Is your child motivated to go to school? If not, why? Is your child motivated to learn at school? Is your child having a subtle impairment (e.g. refractive errors or mild hearing loss) that is preventing him/her from benefitting from an enriched learning environment? Providing answers to these questions will help your child find fun in learning in an enriched learning environment which might result in improved learning outcomes.
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Effects of Domestic Violence on Child Development

Family is not only the primary agent of socialisation but the most important influencer of child development. This implies the nature of home environment (family) can make or mar a child's development. Unfortunately, the incidence of nuclear family dysfunction and domestic violence in our society is high and on the increase, and its implication for children's cognitive and emotional functioning and social adjustment is ignored. Sometime ago, a young couple visited a speech-language clinic to seek solution to the sudden muteness of their child at home. They complained that their child's school teacher observed he stopped interacting with his classmates and refused to answer questions in class, leaving the teacher frustrated with the child's unresponsiveness. The speech language pathologist (SLP) clerked the parents and assessed the child. The child had no (neuro)developmental delay or disability. However, the SLP observed something odd between the couple. The SLP, thro...

The Neuroscience of Political Leadership in Nigeria

It's our independence day and I'm sure that most Nigerians are not happy with the current state of the country. One can easily say the reason for this is bad leadership. So many political commentators and scholars have attempted to explain this phenomenon from a social science perspective, which is laudable, but I intend to approach this from a neuroscientific perspective. Let me start with the agreed consensus that our problems started with the colonialist. You may say they exploited us. So what did they think about our cognitive functioning for them to so? Because of their inability to diagnose mental illness in Africans due to communication barriers, colonial neuroscientists concluded that the brain of an African adult was no more developed than that of a child, that Africans lacked the ability to plan for the future and that the African mind is dependent on excitement and external stimuli. In simple term, our mentality was primitive! Years later, African neuroscientists d...