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The brain, with its billions of interconnected neurons, is without any doubt the most complex organ in the body and it will be a long time before we understand all its mysteries. The Human Brain Project proposes a completely new approach. The project is integrating everything we know about the brain into computer models and using these models to simulate the actual working of the brain. Ultimately, it will attempt to simulate the complete human brain. The models built by the project will cover all the different levels of brain organisation - from individual neurons through to the complete cortex. The goal is to bring about a revolution in neuroscience and medicine and to derive new information technologies directly from the architecture of the brain.

Individuals bring a huge variety of skills, needs, and interests to learning. Neuroscience reveals that these differences are as varied and unique as our DNA or fingerprints. Three primary brain networks come into play:

TEDxEnola, an independently organized full day event held on February 1, 2012 focused on 21st Century education reform with a focus on cutting edge brain research topics and strategies. National experts from the field shared ideas and research about the critical need for brain centered learning envirionments in today's schools. A "one size fits all" instructional approach will not work for the today's diverse learners. Learn how to engage your students with brain based and innovative 21st Century instructional strategies that work.

Michael Merzenich studies neuroplasticity -- the brain's powerful ability to change itself and adapt -- and ways we might make use of that plasticity to heal injured brains and enhance the skills in healthy ones.