Neuroplasticity Quotes

• Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.

  Naveen Jain

  Hands, Brain, Different

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• Everything having to do with human training and education has to be re-examined in light of neuroplasticity.

  Norman Doidge

  Education, Light, Training

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• Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas.

  Andrew Weil

  Basketball, Mean, Golf

  Andrew Weil (2011). “Spontaneous Happiness: Step-by-step to peak emotional wellbeing”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• Neurons that fire together wire together.

  Donald O. Hebb

  Fire, Wire, Together

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• Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma.

  Norman Doidge

  People, Brain, Saws

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• Neuroplasticity contributes to both the constrained and unconstrained aspects of our nature. It renders our brains not only more resourceful, but also more vulnerable to outside influences.

  Norman Doidge

  Brain, Influence, Vulnerable

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• Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just as neuroplastic in our ability to eventually recover and adapt.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Brain, Computer, Tricky

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