European Brain Day – Virtual Receptor

innovative method of psychotherapy

The brain is the master helmsman of all the processes in our body. In this command centre, every element is essential to the functioning of the whole. We need to take care of it by trying to have a healthy lifestyle: proper diet, regular exercise, getting enough sleep and gymnastics – but also one for the brain with listening to music, developing passions and avoiding stimulants. Alexandra Front, a student from the Faculty of Automation, Electronics and Computer Science, wrote interestingly about the brain in her article: “For humans – essential. Necessary as inhalation to exhalation, birth to death and an open frog on a non-trading Sunday. Always an active command post – the brain.” With around 100 billion specialised neurons requiring training. One of its effective ways is to do new things and learn.

According to Gordon Stokes, “Learning difficulties are 80% related to stress. Remove stress and learning problems disappear”. It’s good to know how our nervous system functions, to work on healthy habits in order to cope better with stress. It is also a good idea, as recommended by Joanna Ferszka-Bykowska, psychiatrist and deputy director for treatment at the T. Bilikiewicz Regional Psychiatric Hospital in Gdańsk, to take care of your professional development and education, so that you have an escape from everyday problems – something to forget about problems and recharge your batteries with positive energy. It is also worth strengthening your psychological competence and working on changing your way of thinking. You can go for psychological therapy, workshops on, for example, assertiveness, stress management, conflict resolution. If we include the support of virtual reality as a stimulus to work on healthy habits, then APO My Glasses and our project nicely fits into the list of brain ‘helpers’.