Posts tagged brain plasticity

Brain-Stillness

How does meditation impact brain plasticity?

Brain plasticity teaches us that the brain is constantly evolving. 70% of our brain cells change every day. Meditation changes the brain in many ways.

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How the Brain Works – Links 01

Brain Awareness Week is from March 14-20, 2011. This post is a collection of short videos that can be very useful in classroom sessions and for students to learn on their own.

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Plastic Brain

5 strategies to effectively use your ‘plastic brain’

Let’s face it. Whether you like it or not, your brain is constantly changing in response to your environment and your thoughts and feelings. Do you want to simply allow your brain to be “rewired” based on your environment and what others do? Or would you like to have some say in how the rewiring takes place?

Here are 5 simple strategies to consciously and intentionally make use of this unique brain plasticity that we all are blessed with.

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Neural Pathways

7 Implications of brain plasticity

Have you seen those sci-fi movies and TV serials where highly advanced robots are designed to tweak, re-engineer and maintain themselves constantly? Our brains do that every day and we take all of that for granted. Knowledge of brain plasticity has profound implications in human learning and behavior, and mental health.

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Child playing with plasticene

Excuse Me – Is your brain plastic?

First of a series of posts on brain plasticity… As a child, we have all played with plasticene. The joy of making new things from existing plasticene is something that one never forgets. Our brain is like plasticene – malleable and changeable.

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