Dr Maldonado´s presentation

The presentation of the Maldonado’s doctor was really interesting for us because he used the scientific evidence for to abolish many myths related to the development of the nervous system in the different periods of the life.

I believe that the most important topic mentioned by the Maldonado’s doctor were:

“There is no time to lose as everything important about the brain is decided by the age of three”, the doctor explained that there are many scientist who think that is in the early years of a child when (s) he is most capable of learning because we birth with a maximum number of neurons that we lose during our develop. But the Maldonado’s doctor said that the learning depends of the environment because if we live in an “enriched” environment we could have better able to perform the learning task, there fore I think that we are very important, like future midwifery, in the first hours of the baby’s life because we should prepare an comfortable environment during their birth, The birth is the most important event in the human life.   The second presented by the Maldonado’s doctor was: “We only use 10% of our brain anyway”, he said that this idea is wrong because the brain always is 100% active even when we are sleeping.

Finally I think that other important idea presented by the doctor was:  “The men use the left-brain’, the women use the right-brain”, but the doctor think that the hemispheres of the brain don’t work separately, furthermore is impossible that the people think that for this reason “The men are more intelligent than the women”.