Konrad Lehmann

The environment shapes your brain, and you shape your environment: so you shape your brain.

As a behavioral scientist with a doctorate in neurobiology and the experience of twenty years of high-level brain research, I have thoroughly got to know our brain from all sides. At the same time, I have perfected the ability to convey this knowledge to an interested audience in a clear and entertaining way in my books and numerous generally understandable articles. My book “The Creative Brain”, published by Springer-Verlag, identifies me as a leading creativity expert. I can draw on the breadth and depth of my knowledge, make surprising connections and convey unexpected insights. I take great pleasure in telling you how you shape your brain through your environment and how you tease out its creative resources - and this pleasure is always mutual.

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Topics

The brain is fascinating and diverse and offers many more topics that expand our view of the world and our knowledge of ourselves. My two core topics are:

1. how does creativity arise in the brain?

In this context, I can explain what characterizes creative personalities and why everyone has the potential to become creative. I explain how an idea comes about and what conditions we can create to make this happen more often. At a time of rapid change, when companies are recognizing creativity as vital to their survival, I explain how they can maintain and nurture this valuable resource in their employees.

2. how does our mental health and performance depend on our environment?

There is nothing we can do about our genes. So how much more sensible it is to focus on how our diverse environment influences the brain! Because this influence is enormous, and it allows everyone to become more balanced, healthier, happier and to enrich their inner mental world.

3. further topic suggestions

The strange brains and surprising mental abilities of animals
Social neurobiology and loneliness
Brain and music
Learning, memory formation and forgetting.

References & Press

Press reviews of “The Creative Brain”

“In his work, the author makes use of a narrative trick - he sends the reader, together with Commissario Prefrontale, on a seven-day search for the secrets that surround the flash of inspiration [...] like in a detective story, the twists and turns of neurobiological creativity research are presented, and the previous findings of psychologists and neuroscientists on this topic are classified and presented in an understandable way.”

Franziska Schubert in the Frankfurter Rundschau

“Konrad Lehmann, neurobiologist at the University of Jena, has written an extremely creative book about our creative brain.”

Larissa Tetsch in Laborjournal

“The question of the relationship between creativity and intelligence is one of the many exciting questions that Konrad Lehmann explores in this book. With seven book chapters, which are also designed as a search for clues with Commissario Prefrontale, the author offers an easy-to-understand insight into today's creativity research. Neurobiological correlations are also explained in detail.”

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Interview:

On March 25, 2019, WDR 5 broadcast the feature “Heureka! - Geistesblitze” by Karin Lamsfuß, for which she interviewed me a few weeks earlier. In it, she explores what you could call “life creativity”: How do people find the idea that helps them out of a life crisis or leads them onto a new, more suitable career path?

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Publications

Das schöpferische Gehirn: Auf der Suche nach der Kreativität - eine Fahndung in sieben Tagen

ISBN : 3662546612

19.99 €

Amazon: Das schöpferische Gehirn: Auf der Suche nach der Kreativität - eine Fahndung in sieben Tagen

Für mein Gehirn bin ich selbst verantwortlich: Wie die Umwelt die Persönlichkeit formt - von der Zeugung bis zum Tod.

ISBN : 3662644916

22.99 €

Amazon: Für mein Gehirn bin ich selbst verantwortlich: Wie die Umwelt die Persönlichkeit formt - von der Zeugung bis zum Tod.

Konrad Lehmann

The environment shapes your brain, and you shape your environment: so you shape your brain.