The Concept of Neuroplasticity and Some Implications

[HikerGuy83]

This Ted Talk is absolutely amazing. I remember seeing about 6 or 7 years ago. Since then, I've been somewhat interested in this subject as it is really a departure from used to be taught about the brain.

One of my kids teachers was really high on the idea of brain growth even before this (the concept started getting acceptance in the 1980's with regards to healthy brains). It was only recently that that they have had the instruments needed to do the kind of research that shows how the brain rewires itself and adds mass if it is used a great deal (and cared for).

Just wondering who has heard of this and what your thoughts are.

I really like her statement at the end of the talk "Go out and build the brain you want".

 

[Mack The Finger]

Thanks for sharing that...I will keep it all in mind if it ever comes up in conversation.

In my nobody opinion we know like 1% in what is bouncing around up there.

What was this guy thinking:

On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman, an engineering student and former marine, holed up in the tower with a rifle. From his outpost, Charles Whitman fatally shot 14 people, including a pregnant woman’s unborn child, before being killed by police. It was the first high-profile mass shooting on a college campus in modern American history — and an event deeply ingrained in the state’s identity.

 

[TheInfiniteSadness]

Thanks for sharing that...I will keep it all in mind if it ever comes up in conversation.

In my nobody opinion we know like 1% in what is bouncing around up there.

What was this guy thinking:

On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman, an engineering student and former marine, holed up in the tower with a rifle. From his outpost, Charles Whitman fatally shot 14 people, including a pregnant woman’s unborn child, before being killed by police. It was the first high-profile mass shooting on a college campus in modern American history — and an event deeply ingrained in the state’s identity.

https://www.autopsyfiles.org/reports/Other/whitman,%20charles_report.pdf

Charles Whitman - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

He had a brain tumor though they're not sure if it was part of the problem.

 

[HikerGuy83]

In my nobody opinion we know like 1% in what is bouncing around up there.

If you didn't watch the talk, I would highly recommend it.

It's important to realize that much of what they thought they knew, they no longer believe. Technology is allowing them to non-invasively examine our brains and correlate things like never before.

As she points out, the neuroscience community used to think your brain was pretty much formed by puberty and that after that....the only way it could go was in decline. That idea was challenged around 1900 with the concept of neuroplasticity, but old habits die hard. It wasn't until the 1980's that this really started to grow legs. There was just to much empiracle information coming out that countered the idea.

 

[Mack The Finger]

If you didn't watch the talk, I would highly recommend it.

I did and I have no responce to your current post.

Maybe in 500 years...they will come up with something new.

 

[HikerGuy83]

I did and I have no responce to your current post.

Maybe in 500 years...they will come up with something new.

This is something new....relatively new.

 

[Mack The Finger]

This is something new....relatively new.

Hey did I tell you the UNIV of Penn used me for a study because I hit my head so many times.

 

[HikerGuy83]

Hey did I tell you the UNIV of Penn used me for a study because I hit my head so many times.

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What did they have you do?