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A skill that actually can be training were going to talk about that skill a lot today before that hour to ask you that our brain is constantly changing its costly developing and your nearest and his colleagues call it here plasticity simpkin explain how exactly does that mirror of plasticity it 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 is the to change our brains for the better. And so the very mechanisms of neuroplasticity that enable stress to get under the skin and to have a negative
Course one in 10 even thought it was the jews not the nazis who carried out the 1000000 for. Thanks for joining us there were not the international and now with the latest headlines but now its. El welcome to sophie visionaries me Sophie Shevardnadze emotions are our internal compass they guide 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 founder and director of the center for health in minds. Dr Richard Davidson professor of psychology and psychiatry at the university of wisconsin madison and the founder director of the center for health in isis really great to have you with us i mean weve been really looking forward to this so in your presentations he often raised the question of why are some people more vulnerable to life challenges and others are more resilience to that has found an answer. Well this is a question that has be
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