Reprogramming the Machinery of the Brain

According to  Dr. Norman Doidge in The Brain that Changes Itself, “Michael Merzenich is a driving force behind scores of neuroplastic innovations and practical inventions.”  One of the groundbreaking devices he developed enabled cognitively deaf children to hear.    He supports that “brain exercises may be as useful as drugs to treat diseases as severe […]

Thoughts influence Matter

Dr. David Perlmutter and Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D. note in Power Up Your Brain that Neural networks are created by focused, engaged stimulation. . .the choices you make actually do influence the physical structures, the neural networks, in your brain. ‘Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in the  structure and functioning of the nervous […]