The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
The dark side is it's actually very easy to get neuroplasticity as an adult through traumatic, or terrible, or challenging experiences. But the important question is to say why is that? And the reason that's the case is because when something very bad happens, there's the release of two sets of neuromodulators in the brain. Epinephrine, which tends to make us feel alert and agitated, which is associated with most bad
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So spiking adrenaline is the opportunity to create plasticity. Turns out so is spiking dopamine. So is spiking acetylcholine. Turns out that there's this kind of um uh equality to all the neuromodulators. If you can create a high amount of arousal or a unusual state, you can modify the brain for some period of time.