Quotes About Neuroplasticity

Experience, particularly in childhood, sculpts the brain. The

largo de un proceso conocido con el nombre de «podado», el cerebro va perdiendo las conexiones neuronales menos frecuentadas y fortaleciendo aquellos circuitos sinápticos más utilizados. De este modo, el «podado», al eliminar las sinapsis menos utilizadas, mejora la relación señal/ruido del cerebro extirpando la causa misma del «ruido».

Researchers have warned about growing up with digital habits (TV, mobile phones, video games, etc), and the resultant changes in the physiology of the brain.

that fire together, wire together—so if you create a habit of releasing emotions, your brain will actually rewire itself for optimism and forgiveness.

And in the brain, neurons that fire together quite literally wire together.

Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.

We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.

Fear experiences can produce dramatic changes in the brain's architecture, resulting in profound alterations in our assumptions and perceptions.

It turns out that saying, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks," doesn't apply to humans. Research now reveals that our brains are continuously changing, producing new growth, making new connections. It doesn't matter how old we are, we are still under construction, learning as we go along.

strengthens its circuits when you use it in

this kind of increased synaptic strength is a key to the formation of enduring neuronal circuits and has become known by the maxim "Cells that fire together, wire together.

The more often you act in these unhealthy ways, the more you teach your brain that what is simply a habit (a learned behavior) is essential to your survival.

Actual physical practice produced changes in each volunteer's motor cortex, as expected. But so did mere mental rehearsal, and to the same degree as that brought about by physical practice. Motor circuits become active during pure mental imagery. Like actual, physical movements, imagined movements trigger synaptic change at the cortical level. Merely thinking about moving produced brain changes comparable to those triggered by actually moving.

Acquiring navigational skills causes a redistribution of gray matter in the hippocampus as a driver's mental map of London grows larger and more detailed with experience.

You create your brain from the input you get, says Paula Tallal.

The area of the brain devoted to the reading finger of expert Braille readers was much larger than that of the nonreading finger, or of either index finger in nonreaders, Pascual-Leone found. It was a clear case of sensory input increase, with the person paying close attention, leading to an expansion of the brain region devoted to processing that input.

If kittens do not receive visual input between thirty and eighty days after birth (a window of time now known as the critical period), it is too late: the unused eye is blind forever.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.

By changing writing patterns we simultaneously reconfigure the neuropathways in the brain that record our self-image.

You always have more brain cells than you're currently using.

change your brain,change your life

The goal is always the same: to break a skill into its component pieces (circuits), memorize those pieces individually, then link them together in progressively larger groupings (new, interconnected circuits).

as more attention is given to distinguishing between pinpoint differences in touch, sound, or sight, the area of the brain devoted to that distinction expands and, in the process, gets better at it.