Andrew Huberman· PhD
What this tells us is that the young brain is a plasticity machine. But then right about age 25 plus or minus a year or two, everything changes.
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What this tells us is that the young brain is a plasticity machine. But then right about age 25 plus or minus a year or two, everything changes.
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As I mentioned last episode, and I'll just tell you right now again, the brain is incredibly plastic from about birth until about age 25. Passive experience will shape the brain just because of the way that the chemicals that are sloshing around in there and the way that the neurons are arranged and all sorts of things.
the young brain which of course is hyperplastic — and then in many ways the neuroplasticity that occurs early in life is to establish these maps of prediction you know if uh you know Things fall down not up in general Things fall down not up — and so on so that mental real estate can be used for other things and learning new things