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The act of personally generating solutions to failure forces deeper learning, processing, understanding and ultimately better outcomes and future success.
· Own your neuroplasticity.
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Dr. Talia Varley, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
The same neurochemicals that promote neuroplasticity can also cause emotional distress, frustration and demotivation.
—Dr. Talia Varley, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
Don’t—your seemingly self-indulgent mental detour may have boosted your brain’s neuroplasticity—the brain’s ability to change and adapt due to factors like injury and learning.
—Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 13 Dec. 2023
This window of neuroplasticity may be why people with mental health problems have found relief in numerous clinical trials of psychedelic mushrooms.
—Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2023
Living an active lifestyle – physically, mentally and socially – can drive neuroplasticity and maintain the brain.
—Hilary A. Diefenbach, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023
The finding suggests that SSRIs improve neuroplasticity during the first weeks or months of treatments, and that neuroplasticity contributes to the drugs’ benefit—and to the delay before users feel better.
—WIRED, 26 Oct. 2023
Knudsen believes that SSRIs owe their efficacy at least in part to boosting neuroplasticity.
—WIRED, 26 Oct. 2023
The larger goal of the Dinner Party, as Broder calls the event, was to explore the power of food in triggering memories, improving quality of life, and enhancing neuroplasticity—things that are difficult to achieve with medicines.
—Peggy Orenstein, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2023
Dr. Talia Varley, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
The same neurochemicals that promote neuroplasticity can also cause emotional distress, frustration and demotivation.
—Dr. Talia Varley, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
Don’t—your seemingly self-indulgent mental detour may have boosted your brain’s neuroplasticity—the brain’s ability to change and adapt due to factors like injury and learning.
—Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 13 Dec. 2023
This window of neuroplasticity may be why people with mental health problems have found relief in numerous clinical trials of psychedelic mushrooms.
—Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2023
Living an active lifestyle – physically, mentally and socially – can drive neuroplasticity and maintain the brain.
—Hilary A. Diefenbach, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2023
The finding suggests that SSRIs improve neuroplasticity during the first weeks or months of treatments, and that neuroplasticity contributes to the drugs’ benefit—and to the delay before users feel better.
—WIRED, 26 Oct. 2023
Knudsen believes that SSRIs owe their efficacy at least in part to boosting neuroplasticity.
—WIRED, 26 Oct. 2023
The larger goal of the Dinner Party, as Broder calls the event, was to explore the power of food in triggering memories, improving quality of life, and enhancing neuroplasticity—things that are difficult to achieve with medicines.
—Peggy Orenstein, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2023
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“Neuroplasticity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/neuroplasticity. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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neuroplasticity
noun
neu·ro·plas·tic·i·ty
ˌn(y)u̇r-ō-pla-ˈsti-sə-tē 
: plasticity sense 4
… neuroplasticity, the capacity of the brain to develop and change throughout life, something Western science once thought impossible.—Time
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