 Did you know that the adult brain has approximately 83 billion neurons plus the frontal lobe is the last part to develop in adolescence which may explain why our young people in our schools take risks, find it difficult to be empathetic and are a little bit more erratic throughout their adolescence years. So in the link to this video you've got this cartoon which will explain shortly. Adolescence so the young people in our schools is actually defined from ages 13 to 25 years old and when we are born we have the most neurons at one single point in our life and then over time they start to prune away and fade and we're left with approximately 83 to 100 billion neurons. That all depends on how well you look after yourself, how much alcohol you drink, those kind of things and these neurons are the architects of memory and learning and why I think it's important to know well neurons connect through synapses, they form the basis of all our thoughts, our memory and our experiences and we can learn a little bit more about the anatomy of the brain to improve how we actually approach our teaching. This is something I've been doing exclusively for the last few years. Through neuroplasticity our connections strengthen with use, shaping our ability to learn and to adapt and I believe teachers should tailor their teaching to harness the incredible kind of potential that neuro science and neuroplasticity in this case can yield in all our students. One thing that I'd recommend you do if you incorporate brain breaks into your lessons so not a free-for-all but a curriculum quiz or something like that with engaging stories you can boost synaptic connections and enhance learning in your lessons today very easily. So storytelling, low-state quizzes, reducing that stress and increasing that retrieval. So in this cartoon you've got a little biology lesson to help you understand what one single neuron looks like. I hope it helps.