Things that will affect the overall extent to which the brain is plastic but. It is. Widely recognised that plasticity is one of the core features of the brain. And so. It is that our brains are constantly being shaped and there that is a basic human property every human being shares this basic characteristic and so neural plasticity is neutral with respect to whether its good or bad it depends if youre in a toxic environment its going to have an impact on your brain its going to shape your brain if youre exposed to traumatic events it will shape your brain through neural plasticity and have negative consequences and so the opportunity here is that we can harness the power of neural plasticity for the good. And it happens at any age lets say if i were to decide at age 41 that i want to her newest here plasticity and i want to focus on the scale of becoming happy if that can happen for me as well or does it mean that we have to be doing that since were boring and nurturing that in our c
On well being to focus on the constituents of well being and has led us all that actually can be trained were going to talk about that skill a lot today before that i wanted to ask you that our brain is constantly changing its costly developing and your nearest and his colleagues call it near plasticity sim can you explain how exactly does that mirror a place to sit at work. Yes. Neuroplasticity is really a foundational concept and what it means is that the brain changes in response to experience and i often say that the brain is changing wittingly or unwittingly meaning that it can change intentionally or unintentionally most of the time our brains are changing unwittingly most the time we are unaware of the forces around us that are shaping our brain and those forces are ones over which we have little control and the invitation in all of this work is that we can actually harness the power of neuro plus this in the to change our brains for the better. And so the very mechanisms of neu
Got us through lives complexities but may get overwhelming in the process to talk about this im joined by dr Richard Davidson professor of psychology and psychiatry at the university of wisconsin madison and the founder and director of the center for health in mind. Dr Richard Davidson professor of psychology and psychiatry at the university of wisconsin madison and the founder and director of this so in your presentations you also raised the question of why are some people more vulnerable to live challenges and others are more resilient to them have you found an answer. Well this is a question that has been with me from the start of my career and still in scary quieter and and present and i would say that we are up for aggressively learning more and more about the answer. And what we also have in the specially focused on over the last 10 years is what kinds of. Training and what kinds of strategy is a person might gauge and that may. Promote a positive quality is that enable them to b
The dedication of the dwight d. Eisenhower memorial live online at cspan. Org or listen live on the cspan radio app. The House Homeland Security Committee Hearing just wrapped up with fbi director crist mer wray taking questions. Acting Homeland Security secretary chad wolf subpoenaed to testify in todays hearing but did not appear. The committee is chaired by congressman bennie thompson. As i said, the committee of Homeland Security will come to order. Without objection, the chairs authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. Good morning. Before we good morning. Begin, i want to say our thoughts with those americans dealing with devastating natural disasters, including the wildfires in the west and Hurricane Sally in the south. As chairman, i remain committed to ensuring they receive the federal help needed to respond, recover and build back stronger. Today the committee on Homeland Security is meeting for its annual hearing on worldwide threats to the homeland. Our na
Cambridge university press, with robert gurwath, which reframes the history of the global war and the wilsonian moment, selfdetermination and the International Origins of anticolonial nationalism. Mr. Manela will close our symposium with a lecture that explores how wilsons ideas and convictions reformed, how they helped shape the 1919 peace settlement and how that continues to impact us today. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming dr. Erez manela. [ applause ] thank you, lora, for that kind introduction. I want to take a second to thank lora and matt and camille and everybody else, all the rest of the staff at the world war i museum and memorial, including everybody who has kept us organized and on time and well fed throughout these two days. This is the second time, as you mentioned, lora, i worked with this group. And im just i have been amazed by your intellectual engagement and your organizational wizardry, so i would like to take a moment to put our hands together and