Neuroplasticity

“In fact, there was a beautiful study done where they have people read some, a passage once, twice, three times, or four times versus reading it just once and then self-testing on it in their mind at some point later. And the self-testing in your mind, what do …”

“The brain is, is a unique organ in that it's we tend to think of the brain as like software, right? With it, there's all these connections and programs being run. And the weird part thing that happens over development much like a green tree that develops bark …”

“Behavioral tools should form the foundation of All your sleep tools, your wakefulness tools, behaviors first, for one simple but important reason, which is that behaviors rewire your nervous system. They, so they engage what we call neuroplasticity, which is y…”

“There are several very good papers that were published in the last few years in the journal Cell Report showing that short naps and NSDR, I should say, has some good science to support it, accelerates neuroplasticity and learning. Especially if you take that n…”

“After age 25, the brain doesn't change unless it's self-directed change, so don't expect anybody to change unless it's self-directed. Forget trying to get people to change. It does not work. It works with children. It does not work with adults unless it's self…”

“What they discovered in doing these brain scans was something they did not expect, was that The group that was practicing mindfulness had good results in terms of their OCD, but also that it seemed to reactivate what psychologists call neuroplasticity.”