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In Remembrance
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: about 45 minutes to anywhere!
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In Remembrance
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: about 45 minutes to anywhere!
Posts: 3,086
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the link to an pdf excerpt
http://www.normandoidge.com/excerpt.pdf
a bit of the excerpt
Neuro is for “neuron,” the nerve cells in our brains and nervous systems. Plastic
is for “changeable, malleable, modifiable.” At first many of the scientists didn’t
dare use the word “neuroplasticity” in their publications, and their peers belittled
them for promoting a fanciful notion. Yet they persisted, slowly overturning the
doctrine of the unchanging brain. They showed that children are not always stuck
with the mental abilities they are born with; that the damaged brain can often
reorganize itself so that when one part fails, another can often substitute; that if
brain cells die, they can at times be replaced; that many “circuits” and even basic
reflexes that we think are hardwired are not. One of these scientists even
showed that thinking, learning, and acting can turn our genes on or off, thus
shaping our brain anatomy and our behavior—surely one of the most
extraordinary discoveries of the twentieth century.
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with much love,
lou_lou
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pd documentary - part 2 and 3
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Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these.
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