Andrew Huberman· PhD
by engaging in play as adults, we can reactivate some of those circuits and reopen the plasticity.
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by engaging in play as adults, we can reactivate some of those circuits and reopen the plasticity.
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adults that maintain a playful stance that engage in things again that are low stakes contingency exploring important enough that people focus and that people pay attention to what they're doing, but that they are not, you know, filled with adrenaline, you know, freaked out about the outcome being A or B, they're not super, super competitive, maybe just a little bit competitive or not competitive at all. That allows for more ongoing plasticity.
children that have been subjected to trauma or immense amounts of stress of any kind, have a harder time both engaging in play, but also a harder time accessing neuroplasticity later in life.
This is actually a way in which I start to depart from this modern and important but somewhat narrow idea that exercise is the only route to plasticity.