Neuroplasticity: How the Brain Changes

For curious learners who want the real science behind neuroplasticity: what physically changes when you learn, how researchers overturned the fixed-brain idea, who changes most, where the hype outruns the evidence, and which kinds of practice actually reshape the brain.

5 sections ยท 16 lessons

Course outline

What Plasticity Is

  1. Plasticity Is Physical Change
  2. How Synapses Learn

How We Got Here

  1. What the Fixed-Brain Dogma Claimed
  2. Kittens and Critical Periods
  3. Maps That Move
  4. The New-Neuron Debate

Plasticity Across a Lifetime

  1. Sensitive Windows in Childhood
  2. Adults Change, With Conditions
  3. Why Plasticity Gets Harder
  4. Recovery After Brain Injury

The Caveats

  1. When Plasticity Backfires
  2. Rewiring Claims, Reconsidered
  3. The Brain-Training Transfer Problem
  4. Fact-Checking a Rewire-Your-Brain Ad

Practice That Changes the Brain

  1. Rules for Driving Brain Change
  2. Practice That Sticks
  3. Lifestyle Levers, Honestly Weighed
  4. Building a Brain Plan at 60

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