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Your conscious experience is your window to the world, to other people, and even to yourself. Philosophers have talked about it for ages. Scientists are only beginning to come back to it, and we now have tens of thousands of scientific articles that directly relate to your personal experience. Recognizing the consciousness of others is also basic to human relationships and ethics. That is the Golden Rule of the great wisdom traditions translated into the vocabulary of science, but the point is still the same.

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I believe that unless experience grabs kids, or adults for that matter, as having a searing relevance in their life are discussed in the science curriculum -- most students will just tune out. I made this attempt to connect brain science with the experiences of my characters/patients in my book "The Female Brain" and "The Male Brain" -- especially look at Chapter Two: Teen Boy Brain.

When I present the science material in classrooms to 13-16 year olds you can hear a pin drop.

That said, many critics have said this isn't 'real science'. I disagree, and feel that making a bridge between the laboratory science and real life is the only way to get kids into having a passion about it.

I’d be most interested to hear others’ experiences and approaches.

Louann Brizendine, MD,  clinician, best-selling author