Community Presentations
Brown County Library - Southwest Branch
10:00AM
February 11th
Try Something New - Cognitive Stimulation
By changing how you use your brain daily, you can rewire it and improve your brain function. We’re not just talking about playing Wordle or crossword puzzles! Seek out new, unusual, or exciting experiences. Working through challenges, strong emotions, and interacting with others can make our brains healthier. Consider it nature’s way to improve your brain health.
Food is Medicine-Optimize Your Brain Health
Our brain's constant supply of fuel comes from the foods we eat. Emerging research from the fields of neuroscience and nutrition shows that by changing what you eat, you can improve your mental and emotional well-being. You can stabilize your moods. You can improve your focus. You can even make your brain grow. Join us to learn how food affects the structure and function of your brain.
Brown County Library - Ashwaubenon Branch
10:00 AM
April 15th
Neenah Public Library
6:30 PM
April 28th
Try Something New - Cognitive Stimulation
By changing how you use your brain daily, you can rewire it and improve your brain function. We’re not just talking about playing Wordle or crossword puzzles! Seek out new, unusual, or exciting experiences. Working through challenges, strong emotions, and interacting with others can make our brains healthier. Consider it nature’s way to improve your brain health.
All presentations below will take place Brown County United Way - 111 N Roosevelt St, Green Bay, WI 54301 from 10:00 am - 11:00 am. To RSVP click on the link.
Pillars of Brain Health
Learn about the key habits and protective measures under your control to promote healthy aging and maintain good cognitive health throughout life. Key presentation points will include brain foods and nutrition, brain and body benefits of physical exercise and restorative sleep, appropriate stress management and social stimulation as well as avoidance of toxins. Become aware of neuroplasticity - our brain’s amazing ability to adapt, change and create new pathways in response to experiences, new information or damage.
February 25th, 2025
Cognitive Stimulation
By changing the way you use your brain every day, you can literally rewire it — and improve your brain function in the process. We’re not just talking about playing Wordle or crossword puzzles! Seek out new, unusual or exciting experiences. Working through challenges and strong emotions, and even just interacting with others, can make our brains healthier. Consider it nature’s way to improve your brain health.
March 25th ,2025
Sleeping Through the Ages
The Importance of Sleep on Brain Health-Sleep is an important part of your daily routine—in fact you spend about one-third of your life doing it! Quality sleep – and getting enough of it at the right times -- is as essential to survival as food and water. Without sleep you can’t form or maintain the pathways in your brain that let you learn, create new memories, concentrate and respond quickly. Sleep also plays a key housekeeping role that removes toxins in your brain that build up while you are awake. This presentation will highlight the importance of restorative sleep and how to set up a sleep routine to gain maximum sleep benefits - at all ages!
April 29th, 2025
All presentations below will take place the Ashwaubenon Community Center from 10:00 am - 11:15 am. Please call (920) 492-2331 to RSVP.
Technology Use & Brain Wellness
Technology use can cause structural changes in the brain.
Pings, alerts, rings, and notifications can shift our focus in a way that can lead to long-lasting difficulties with paying attention. Difficulties paying attention can lead to poorer performance on academic, personal, and professional tasks. Let us embrace neuroplasticity, be mindful, and balance our technology use.
February 4th, 2025
Stressing About Stress - Wire Your Brain for Happiness
Let's boost our moods by understanding what stress is and how it impacts our thinking and relationships. When we encounter a stressor, our brain and body respond by triggering a series of chemical reactions that prepare us to engage in a "fight or flight response" from the stressor. This activates the amygdala, or "fear center" of the brain, and causes a series of events. The good news is we can change our feeling of being overwhelmed, anxious, and fearful. Let’s learn the tools to relax and boost our moods.
May 6th ,2025
Protect Your Own Personal Powerhouse Computer
Let's get together to discuss the amazing brain. An interactive dive to protect our brain from avoidance of Injury, Illness, and Toxins. The brain and spinal cord make up the central nervous system (CNS), and the CNS regulates everything that we do. It controls all of our motor and respiratory functions, mediates our senses (sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch), and allows us to form memories and process complex thoughts and emotions. To nurture our brains, we must provide them with the proper fuel, move our bodies, challenge our minds, balance technology, rest, and manage our stress levels. Let’s be mindful to ensure we do not injure them with falls, illness, or toxins that could lead to damage.
June 10th, 2025
Learn About Neuroplasticity
Our brain’s amazing ability to adapt, change and create new pathways. Learn about neuroplasticity - our brain’s amazing ability to adapt, change and create new pathways in response to new information or damage. Neuroplasticity refers to the brain's ability to continue to grow, change and evolving in response to life experiences. It helps form both our good and bad habits and is the basis for all new learning, training and rehabilitation. Neuroplasticity is an active and dynamic process that occurs over our lifetime. Let’s take charge of our brains to help keep them sharp and to prevent cognitive decline!
July 8th, 2025
Music & Sound - A Brain Enhancer?
Join us on the insights and findings on the ways music may affect our brains. Music offers an illustrative example. The ability to produce and respond to music is conventionally ascribed to the right side of the brain, but processing such musical elements as pitch, tempo, and melody engages a number of areas, including some in the left hemisphere (which appears to subserve perception of rhythm). It has even been suggested that skilled musicians use their left brain more in responding to music than do the musically naïve, and that parts of the left brain may play a key role in appreciating the emotional dimension of music.