Neuroplasticity Audiobook (Free)

Fifty years back, neuroscientists thought a older brain was set like a fly in amber, unable to change. Today, we realize that our brains and anxious systems modification throughout our lifetimes. This concept of neuroplasticity provides captured the creativity of a open public looking forward to self-improvement — and has influenced countless Internet entrepreneurs who peddle dubious ‘mind training’ games and apps. Within this publication, Moheb Costandi offers a concise and engaging summary of neuroplasticity for the about Neuroplasticity general listener, describing how our brains transformation consistently in response to your actions and experiences.

Costandi discusses key experimental results, and describes how our thinking about the mind has evolved over time. He explains how the mind changes during advancement, as well as the ‘synaptic pruning’ that takes place before brain maturity. He demonstrates adult brains can develop fresh cells (citing, among a great many other studies, research showing that sexually older male canaries find out a new song every year). He details the type of human brain training that may lead to improvement in brain function. It’s not gadgets and video games that promise to ‘rewire your brain’ but such suffered cognitive tasks as learning a musical instrument or a new vocabulary. (Costandi also notes that London cabbies increase their gray matter after demanding training in their city’s challenging streets.) He tells how brains compensate after stroke or injury; describes addiction and discomfort as maladaptive forms of neuroplasticity; and considers brain adjustments that accompany childhood, adolescence, parenthood, and ageing. Your brains can be custom-built. Neuroplasticity reaches the heart of what makes us human.