http://onebrainsjourney.com/the-dark-side-of-neuroplasticity This is about my journey to understanding how my brain works Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:46:27 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://onebrainsjourney.com/the-dark-side-of-neuroplasticity/comment-page-1#comment-6 Owen Allen Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:07:09 +0000 http://onebrainsjourney.ca/?p=66#comment-6 Yes, Doige's book, "the Brain that Changes itself" describes that the learning process works for all sorts of things under the banner. 'what fires together, wires together'. The human has one advantage over the other mammal, being able to consider neglect as well as attention. So we can choose to neglect / ignore a behavioural response, and to attend to an alternative. Neuroplasticity does seem to work best in people who are still able to give considered attention to a new challenge. Perhaps better as a prevention of alziehmers than a cure. Yes, Doige’s book, “the Brain that Changes itself” describes that the learning process works for all sorts of things under the banner. ‘what fires together, wires together’. The human has one advantage over the other mammal, being able to consider neglect as well as attention. So we can choose to neglect / ignore a behavioural response, and to attend to an alternative. Neuroplasticity does seem to work best in people who are still able to give considered attention to a new challenge. Perhaps better as a prevention of alziehmers than a cure.

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