80 Norman Doidge - How Plastic Is Your Brain?

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Science, Society & Culture, Neuroscience, Female Host, Interview, Social Sciences, Critical Thinking

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🗓️ 3 April 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Norman Doidge, M.D., is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, author, essayist and poet. He is on faculty at the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychiatry, and Research Faculty at Columbia University’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, in New York.On the show this week we talk to Doidge about neuroplasticity—once you reach adulthood, is your brain in a kind of fixed state, or does it keep changing? And can you do things to make it change?Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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1:07.8	wheelhouse, and so I'm particularly sensitive to media stories about the brain,
1:12.3	especially when journalists or others get the science spectacularly wrong. So one of my pet peeves
1:19.6	is when you read a headline and it claims that X treatment or behavior or thing changes
1:26.2	your brain. Because of course, the statement is kind of
1:29.3	meaningless because, you know, eating a donut changes your brain. Time passing changes your brain,
1:34.9	just like it changes your skin and other parts of your body. But the reason why people are so
1:39.4	enthralled by statements like this lies in part in a misconception that at one point was actually dogma in
1:46.3	neurology for a long time. So this is the idea that the brain, once fully developed in adulthood,
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