BRAIN AWARENESS: What is "Brain Awareness?"

By: Dr. Pascale Michelon

"Neu­ro­plas­tic­ity
The catchy phrase behind neu­ro­plas­tic­ity is “neu­rons that fire together wire together”. The idea is that when two events (neu­rons fir­ing) occur in the brain at the same time, the events (neu­rons) become asso­ci­ated with one another, and the neu­ronal con­nec­tions (wiring) become stronger.
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For many years, it was thought that each area of the brain had its own respon­si­bil­i­ties; in other words, cer­tain func­tions were local­ized or hard­wired to cer­tain brain areas. If some­thing is hard­wired then it is fixed and not capa­ble of change."

Presently, the last 2 years, I have been experiencing this plasticity by the help of Shepherd Center, Friends, Family and my own research on brain plasticity or neuroplasticity. It is amazing "how you can assist your brain by doing just small everyday things."