Ed. Note: we are live blogging selected sessions of this year’s SharpBrains Virtual Summit: Retooling Brain Health for the 21st Century. 8:33 AM: The session has ended. Alvaro Fernandez says there are more questions that Dr. Merzenich agrees to answer via email at a future date. We’ll be back to blog a couple more sessions [...]
Tags: future of plasticity, history of plasticity, michael merzenich, plasticity, sharpbrains, sharpbrains summit
Posted March 31, 2011 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience
There are quite a few videos out there of little kids doing things at an extremely advanced level, given their age. Like this one, where a girl who’s not yet two years shows she knows the world map better than most adults, from Zimbabwe to Ecuador. (It’s pretty amazing.)
Tags: brain function, Brain plasticity, child geniuses, children, children's brains, intelligence, plasticity, video
Posted October 19, 2010 by Marghi Merzenich under Brain plasticity, Odds and Ends
Studying and actively listening to music develops the brain in ways that help beyond just enjoying music.
Tags: music, music therapy, musicophilia, plasticity
Posted August 18, 2010 by Steven Aldrich under Brain exercise, Evolution of the Brain, Research studies
After nearly two decades in a semi-conscious state, a man has recovered the ability to speak and move, thanks to new nerve connections grown by his brain. Nineteen years ago a car accident caused teenaged Terry Wallis to suffer a massive traumatic brain injury that left him capable of little more than occasional grunts. As [...]
Tags: cell growth, nerve cells, plasticity, Ryan Reitmeyer, TBI, traumatic brain injury
Posted July 19, 2010 by Ted Baxa under Neuroscience
Ed. Note: this article originally appeared on Dr. Merzenich’s blog On The Brain on June 13, 2009. Millions of individuals (2% of humankind) are plagued by continuous sounds generated in their skulls, not coming from the real world. Because these ringing or roaring sounds are inescapable and because they strongly influence emotional-control processes in the brain, they [...]
Tags: auditory, failure, plasticity, ringing in the ears, tinnitus
Posted June 21, 2010 by Michael Merzenich under Brain plasticity, Neuroscience, Research studies
1:38 PM: That’s it for our live blog today- Peter Delahunt will start the live blogging tomorrow morning at 8 AM for Day 2 coverage. We hope you enjoyed the live blog and that you’ll be back tomorrow! 1:35 PM: Elkhonon Goldberg is the Chief Scientific Advisor to SharpBrains. He begins by discussing the role [...]
Tags: allstate, alvaro fernandez, bill reichman, brain fitness, cognifit, conference, david whitehouse, Driving, driving safety, Elizabeth Zelinski, elkhonon goldberg, IMPACT study, jerri edwards, Kunal Sarkar, Lumosity, marian diamond, murali doraiswamy, plasticity, science claims, sharpbrains, shlomo breznitz, summit, teen driving, tom warden
Posted January 18, 2010 by Karen Merzenich under Benefits of Brain Fitness, Brain exercise, Brain Fitness Marketing, Brain Fitness Program, Brain plasticity, DriveSharp, Driving, Driving safety, Exercise, InSight, Memory, Neuroscience, Posit Science software, Processing speed, Research studies
My son Jackson is playing soccer for Red Star and has started learning to juggle the ball. It has been a long time since I played soccer so I thought it would be fun to learn along with him. When we started, we were getting 1 or 2 juggles before the ball hit the ground, [...]
Tags: juggling, plasticity, reward, rewire, soccer, sports
Posted December 16, 2009 by Steven Aldrich under Brain exercise, Brain plasticity, Exercise, Physical exercise
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