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Brain Science Research: Neuroplasticity

Filed Under Life Coaching, Mental Healing, Physical Healing

Traditionally, scientists have envisioned the Brain as rigid, capable of learning at only certain, key, critical Brain Science Research: Plasticitydevelopmental times.  This view envisions the Brain as an amazing organ — still capable of powerful learning.

Recent research in Brain Science, utilizing fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imagining) — MRI in motion — has been able to demonstrate irrefutably that the brain is capable of learning and developing new neural networks at any age.  This flexible capacity of the brain is termed, “neuroplasticity“.

Dr. Norman Doidge, noted Canadian psychiatrist and author, has experimented with the concept of neuroplasticity.  Dr. Doidge calls neuroplasticity, “one of the most extraordinary discoveries of the twentieth century”.  In his book, “The Brain that Changes Itself,” Dr. Doidge uses case studies to illustrate the beneficial effects of neuroplasticity on patients.

Dr. Doidge states, “Neuroplasticity contributes to both the constrained and unconstrained aspects of our nature.”  He also comments that neuroplasticity, “renders our brains not only more resourceful, but also more vulnerable to outside influences.”

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