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Teasing 10 threads fromNorman Doidge’s…

Thread 1:

Plasticity is a property of all brain tissue. And you can’t have plasticity in isolation. Grow new cells or connections in one area, and you affect the cells and connections in other areas.(pg. 97)

Thread 2:

The nucleus basilis helps us pay attention and remember what we are experiencing. It’s like a teacher in your brain saying, “This is really important –you have to know this for the exam of life.”(pg. 80)

Thread 3:

Learning a new language in old age is good for improving and maintaining memory in general.

(pg. 87)

Thread 4:

Shoes worn for decades, limit the sensory feedback from our feet to our brain. In old age we’re forced to use canes, walkers or crutches to compensate. Walking barefoot over uneven terrain can work to restore the connections.(pg. 90)

Thread 5:

Competitive plasticity is why “unlearning” is harder than learning, and why it is best to get early childhood education right, before bad habits get a competitive advantage. (pg. 60)

Thread 6:

Addictive experiences are more exciting than satisfying because we have two separate pleasure systems in the brain, one that has to do with exciting pleasure and the other that has to do with satisfying pleasure.

(pg. 108)

Thread 7:

We love being in love not only because it makes it easy for us to be happy, but also because it makes it harder for us to be unhappy.

(pg. 114)

Thread 8:

The left hemisphere normally acts like a bully, inhibiting and suppressing the right. When the left hemisphere is intentionally quieted, the right’s uninhibited potential can emerge.(pg. 115)

Thread 9:

Psychotherapy is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors. We are often haunted by unconscious relationships from the past. Working them through means they go from haunting us to simply being part of our history.

(pg. 243)

Thread 10:

Love creates a globally generous state of mind.

(pg. 154)

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Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans

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Slide 6 - http://blog.febc.org/barefoot-souls-gave-shoes-anyway/

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Slide 14 - http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans

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Slide 7 - http://globalmeditation.net/blog/

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Mark Brady, PhDTheEnchantedLoom@gmail.com

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