Andrew Huberman· PhD
Brain Plasticity
The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
Brain Plasticity
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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It's really what makes us us as a species and it's what makes us us as individuals, and it's really where our potential lies. Everything that we know, everything we can do, and our true potential in terms of what we will ever be able to know, do, say, in life is set by the limits of neuroplasticity.
And they did a series of absolutely beautiful experiments, by now I think we can say proving that the adult brain can change provided certain conditions are met.
And that's because of the relationship to puberty and neuroplasticity, this ability to change the brain in response to experience is starting to taper off such that by our early 20s, it's harder to achieve.
There's no evidence whatsoever that neuroplasticity disappears at any stage despite what Hubel and Wiesel told the BBC.
It turns out that's completely wrong. Sorry David and Torsten, but they knew it was wrong.
neuroplasticity Brain Change can occur throughout the entire lifespan
it is far more robust early in life from birth until about age 25 neuroplasticity is sort of the default process our brain is being shaped by our everyday experiences but certainly from age 25 and onward and certainly well into people's 90s even it's been shown the brain can change
the brain maintains the capacity for immense plasticity throughout the entire lifespan
one thing that they missed however was something that you mentioned and is worth highlighting again which is that the brain maintains the capacity for immense plasticity throughout the entire lifespan