Date: October 14, 2023

London, United Kingdom

Oxford-Cambridge Club

9:00 AM to 11 PM

Modality: Hybrid

Organizers:

• The Brain Trust Charity, United Kingdom

• Real Academia de Medicina del País Vasco (Spain)

• Buzan Organization

• Universidad Autonoma de los Andes (Ecuador)

• Buzan Academy (United Kingdom)

• CUGS University of Mexico

• Universidad de Cundinamarca, Colombia

• Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition (London, United Kingdom)

• Instituto Superior de Ciencias Educativas do Douro (Portugal)

• Institución Universitaria Colegios de Colombia UNICOC (Colombia)

• Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences (Estados Unidos de América)

• Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (United States of America)

• International Academy of Social Sciences (United States of America)

• Catholic University of San Antonio of Murcia (Spain)

• Instituto Superior de Lisboa e Vale do Tejo (Portugal) 

• Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana - Núcleo del Guayas (Ecuador)

• Familie Expat (Madrid, Spain and Paris, France)

• Catholic University of New Spain, United States of America

• University of Guayaquil, Ecuador

• Universidad Casa Grande, Ecuador

• Himalayan Ecological Research Institute for Training and Grassroots Enhacement (Heritage), India

• Faculty of Business Administration, Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Participants from the following universities:

•University of Manchester, United Kingdom

•University of Southhampton, United Kingdom

•University of Cundinamarca, Colombia

•Catholic University of San Antonio of Murcia, Spain

•Imperial College of London, United Kingdom

•Instituto Superior de Ciencias Educativas do Douro (Portugal)

•Institución Universitaria Colegios de Colombia UNICOC (Colombia)

•Instituto Superior de Lisboa e Vale do Tejo (Portugal)

•Catholic University of New Spain, United States of America

•University of Guayaquil, Ecuador

•Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los Andes, Ecuador

•Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan

•Universidad de Santo Tomas, Colombia

•Universidad Técnica Estatal de Quevedo, Ecuador

•Keiser University, United States of America

• Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico

• Indira Ghandhi National Open University, India

• Dar Al-Kalima University, Palestinian Authority

• Universidad Estatal de Milagro, Ecuador

• Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

• Universidad Espiritu Santo (UESS), Ecuador

Themes:

• Education

• Intelligence

• Strategic Thinking

• Interdisciplinary Research 

Activities:

• Academic Presentations

• Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner  (London, United Kingdom)

Keynote Presenters:

•Professor Linda Evans, Professor of Education and Associate Dean, University of Manchester, United kingdom

•Professor Ricardo Martins, PhD, President of the Pedago Educational Group of Portugal

•H.E. Ambassador Otto Federico von Feigenblatt, MA (CU), EdD (NSU), PhD (NSU), ALM (Harvard)   AMBASSADOR and Deputy Permanent Observer to the United Nations for the OIJ, and Professor and Chair of the Graduate Education and Psychology Department, Latin Division, Keiser University 

•Dr. Taehee Choi, Associate Professor, University of Southhampton, and Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Plenary Presenters:

Michael Angus Crawford, PhD, FRCB, FRCPath.

First degree BSc Chemistry 1952. Trained with the RCAF, RAF and University Air Squadron, navigation and flying. Doctorate in Chemical Pathology at the Royal Post Graduate Medical School, Hammersmith, Initiated teaching in biochemistry and chemical pathology at Makerere College Medical College, 1960-65. Wellcome Visiting Fellowship to the Department of Pharmacology, University of Uppsala. Sweden, Head of biochemistry at the Nuffield Institute of Comparative Medicine, Founded the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition 1990. Located at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, On its closure by the Government, relocated to London Metropolitan University. Retired 2010 but then invited to join Imperial College as a visiting professor 2010, Research interest in East Africa – nutritional/biochemical epidemiology, back in the UK, specifically interested in the nutrition and evolution of the brain together with quantum mechanical properties of its functioning lipids, and its neurodevelopmental disorders. Published more than 300 peer reviewed papers and 4 books, Just out “The Shrinking Brain” By Crawford and Marsh.

ABSTRACT

THE EVOLUTION OF THE BRAIN AND ITS PRESENT DECLINE.

Encephalisation in Homo rose from a chimpanzee cranial capacity of 340cc to 1,500-1,700cc of 28,000-32,000 y.a. despite our genomes differing by only 1.5%. This increase was powered epigenetically by wild foods which must have included the aquatic food web as the brain evolved in the sea 500 m.y.a. using marine substrates which it still requires today. Deficiency studies have described volumetric deficits, cognitive, learning, behavioural, motor and visual losses. These studies have been complemented by a study of 14,000 pregnancies There was a straight-line relationship between maternal fish and sea food eaten and cognitive, motor and social scores of the children at 8 years of age. Although we and other scientists have been actively concerned about the neglect of the brain since 1971, no government nor any UN agency includes the brain in food and agricultural policies. Average cranial capacity today is about 1,336cc. We have lost a chunk of the brain about the size we started with as a chimpanzee. IQ has been shrinking and the prevalence of mental ill-health has been escalating globally. If these trends continue, humanity will be lost. Action to arrest the decline and continue the upward thrust is urgently needed, 195 words.

Brian, reverse-evolution, mental ill-health, extinction.

Sue Whiting BSc, MSc, DPhil, ACA, CTA, GMM

Biographical sketch

Sue Whiting is a Grand Master of Memory, was the Women’s World Memory Champion in five consecutive championships (1994-1998) and the 1995 Random Images World Record holder. Her first two degrees were Maths & Physics at Nottingham University (Frank Farmer Hind prize) and DPhil in Astrophysics at Oxford University (Johnson Memorial essay prize). She became a chartered accountant and chartered tax adviser and wrote the CCH Corporation tax guide for five consecutive years (2001/02 – 2005/06). Sue became fascinated by memory techniques when taking a career break to look after her young family. She was acknowledged by Tony Buzan as a special consultant for both his Master Your Memory book (1998 edition) and The Memory Book and was the founder of the inaugural UK school memory championships in 2008 (The Junior Memory Challenge for Year 4 pupils). She has published three books for young children. Following her MSc in Educational Neuroscience (2017, London University) she has continued her research into Stress and Learning (paper published in 2021) and language learning (paper in press). She is also a Heartmath (stress transformation technique) group trainer and 1:1 coach. In her spare time she plays keyboard in an award winning amateur big band.

Title of presentation

Stress and learning in children: Neuroscience evidence and its relevance for teachers

Abstract

Everyone has experienced common symptoms of stress: raised heart rate, excessive sweating or a dry mouth. But not everyone appreciates these are part of the body's ‘fight or flight response’ –evolved to optimise our body's responses to actual physical danger. In addition to bodily changes, stress promotes other, more subtle mental changes – it influences, for example, how we decide what to pay attention to in our environment. In educational settings, an individual's level of stress response in a given situation influences their learning capacities in complex ways. Some stress, manifested in changes to arousal and attention, is required for learning. Too much stress, or stress at the wrong time, may inhibit learning. This complex relationship between stress and learning is highly individual across pupils, depending on multiple long- and short-term factors, as well as the child’s appraisal of the situation and their available coping strategies. A classroom challenge providing optimal learning outcomes for one pupil may provide too much, or too little, arousal for another. Raising teachers’ awareness of the inter-individual differences in their pupils’ stress responses will be an important step in accommodating the differing needs of individual children, enabling more children to achieve their full potential.

Keywords

Stress, physiological stress, learning, children, inter-individual variability

•Dr. Jorge Castaneda, CEO of the Buzan Group (United Kingdom)

•Dr. Oscar Yecid Aparicio Gomez, Former Dean of the Faculty of Education of the University of Cundinamarca

• Title: UCAM's internationalization and multiculturalism strategy

Virtual Presentations:

•Dr. Hernan Alejandro Olano Garcia, Rector of UNICOC, Bogota, Colombia

oTitle: The University and the thought of Benedict XVI

• Mr. Miguel Falconi, MS, Director of the Instituto de la Experiencia Exponencial, Ecuador

• Mr. Fernando Moran, MS, President of Action Growth, Ecuador

• Honorable Daniel del Valle Blanco, Member of the Academic Council, Observatorio MAPFRE de Finanzas Sostenibles, Spain

• Dr. Deepak Paliwal, Associate Professor of Sociology, Indira Ghandhi National Open University, India

• Miguel Angel Alava, MEd, Instructor, Liceo Panamericano, Ecuador

• Carla Lozano, Adjunct Lecturer, Universidad Estatal de Milagro, Ecuador

• Jose Luis Alava, Adjunct Lecturer, Universidad de Guayaquil, Ecuador

• Hector Yepez martinez, Director of the Mediation and Arbitration Centre, School of Government, Universidad Espiritu Santo -UESS, Ecuador

Scientific Committee:

Professor Michael Crawford, Imperial College of London

Dr. Oscar Yecid Aparicio Gomez, Dean of the Faculty of Education of the University of Cundinamarca

Professor Javier Aranceta Bartrina, President of the Royal Academy of Medicine of the Basque Country (Spain)

Dr. Ricardo Martins, President of the Pedago Education Group, Portugal

Dr. Gonzalo Wandosell Fernández de Bobadilla, Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration and Law of the Catholic University of San Antonio of Murcia (Spain)

Professor Malcolm Cooper, Emeritus Professor, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (Beppu, Japan)

Professor Hernan Alejandro Olano Garcia, Rector of UNICOC Colombia

Dr. Guido Poveda Burgos, Universidad de Guayaquil, Ecuador

Dr. Martha Fabiola Rizzo Gonzales, director of the Casa de la Cultura, Núcleo Guayas, Ecuador

Professor Jesús Estupiñán Ricardo, Vice President of the Latin American Association of Neutrosophic Sciences and professor, UNIANDES, Ecuador

Professor Dean Pardo, Professor Emeritus, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan

Professor Olga Lucía Ostos Ortiz, National Director of Research and Innovation, Universidad Santo Tomas, Colombia

Dr. Eduardo Diaz Ocampo, Rector of the Universidad Técnica Estatal de Quevedo, Ecuador

Dr. Byron Oviedo Bayas, Universidad Técnica Estatal de Quevedo, Ecuador

Dr. Deepak Paliwal, Associate Professor of Sociology, Indira Ghandhi National Open University, India

Professor Magid Shihade, PhD, Vice President for Academic Affairs at Dar Al-Kalima University, Palestinian Authority

Professor Maria de Jeuss Araiza Vazquez, PhD, Department Chair, Faculty of Accounting and Management, Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Dr. David Caldevilla Dominguez, Associate Professor, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain