Chapters 1 & 2
Introduction & What Me, Worry? INTRODUCTORY COMMENT: The reader should understand that this book represents the informed opinion of the author, and is not intended to provide a complete scientific …
Introduction & What Me, Worry? INTRODUCTORY COMMENT: The reader should understand that this book represents the informed opinion of the author, and is not intended to provide a complete scientific …
The Gift of “Adult Brain Plasticity” in a Human Life: The story of David Significant improvements in speech reception abilities like those recorded in David have been achieved several million …
MY Earth is Spinning Faster and Faster…Special challenges for developing and sustaining a modern brain Helmuth Plessner, a leading proponent of “philosophical anthropology”, is most strongly identified in my mind …
The Great Awakening: “My Brain Is PLASTIC” How the scientist writing this account finally saw the light An annotated autobiography including an abbreviated description of my University of California laboratory’s …
A Special Experiment That Demonstrated the Incredible Power of Cortical Plasticity in Older Adults Lessons learned, from the development of a cochlear implant Again, I have published a brief account …
The Power of Plasticity for Transforming Lives It’s all about YOUR brain and YOUR future John Corcoran tells the story about his reading failure as a child, and about his …
Riding The Human Roller-Coaster… The Rise—Then Fall—of Human Ability Across a Lifetime Psychologists studying the development of language-specific phonological processing have shown that newborns can discriminate between phonemic inputs (phonemes …
Cranking Up the New Machinery… The acquisition of skills and ability in early life General reference books and review articles on the critical period and on child development listed in …
How DOES an Older Brain Remodel Itself?! Ten fundamental principles of brain plasticity “Change is mostly limited to those situations in which the brain is in the mood for it.”On …
Reaching the Mountain Top Your brain, on steroids A few references related to my description of the general development of motor control ability in childhood (note that many hundreds could …
Slowly Sliding Back Down the Slope… Aging – and other sources of decline in our cognitive abilities – that can degrade the quality of our operation capabilities and imperil our …
Believing in Brain Plasticity Applying this science to recover a life You can learn more about Ryan and his special journey (and meet him) at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y817Q7oOYw Ryan Reitmeyer and his …
You are Special! How your brain remodeled itself to create the unique person that is reading this book. For a general reference to memory processes, see Schacter DL, Searching for …
Your parallel universes… Growing, sustaining and controlling your operations in ALL of your brain Worlds For the classical description of the loss of cutaneous sensation in oxygen-deprived skin, see Head …
Loading Your Own Encyclopedia Magnifica Memory acquisition and use For a few of Abe Lincoln’s jokes, see Paul Zall’s (2007) Abe Lincoln’s Legacy of Laughter: Humorous Stories By and About …
A Typical Day in the Life of Your Brain! Perceiving, recognizing, recording, pondering, understanding, responding The basic numbers/facts about the brain provided in this superficial description of the brain and …
Transformation, Part Deux How improvements at the ‘little things’ can change the course of a life These are self-reported tales (chosen from among many examples) that come a) from two …
Losing Ground, Just By Having a Birthday! How, more exactly, do mental and physical performance abilities change as we grow older? Several hundred studies have documented changes in processing speed …
It’s Not Just About Growing Older. Of Course. Many other things can befall us that can contribute to our neurological struggles For a first-person account of autism (there are several …
When Brains Change, You Change. Older should be wiser, better, and more balanced, but alas The weaknesses described in this chapter have been referenced earlier, esp. in the notes for …
Machinery In Need Of Repair Physical, chemical and functional changes in older and in wounded brains For a description of changes in brain volumes in aging—and in the progression into …
WHY Is My Brain Slowing Losing It? Root causes of physical and functional changes in aging Scientists have noted differences in the numbers of sensory receptors in human skin as …
Pushing harder on that accelerator, in reverse! How ‘negative learning’ can speed up age- and brain injury-related decline Age related differences in gait patterns have been recorded in many studies. …
Frankly, This Subject Is Depressing Me… How other medical issues contribute to – and often accelerate – functional and neurological decline I’m not going to go all the way down …
Alzheimer’s How changes in a brain can result in its ultimate catastrophic collapse For a general reference about Alzheimer’s Disease, written for the informed layperson, see Coste JK, Butler R …
That Troublesome Body Hooked Up To My Brain… A healthy brain is CRUCIAL for sustaining a healthy body Many scientists demonstrated the neurobehavioral benefits of a regular dose of physical …
Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks How the scientist writing this book began to realize that there are very good uses for one of God’s (Mother Nature’s) greatest gifts: Your plastic …
“Science to the People” Bringing this new form of help from the Ivory Tower out into the real world Again, the history of our founding Scientific Learning Corporation, Posit Science …
Reorganizing Your Life With a Brain Fitness Goal Daily activities that can contribute to the maintenance of a healthy brain This discussion is supported by annotation accompanying other book chapters …
Programs for Brain Rejuvenation or Brain Recovery Features of computer-controlled, Internet-delivered neuroscience-based programs designed to grow, rejuvenate or recover – then sustain – your brain health The principles guiding the …
What Does Mike Do? How has the writer of this book organized his life so that person that he is can continue to THRIVE and GROW. My own personal strategies …
Can’t I Just Take a Pill? Other useful strategies that can contribute to your brain health. For general references (now several years old) summarizing evidence that physical exercise is good …
My memory is pretty good, but my back is driving me crazy… Helping your brain help your body. Annotation largely in earlier chapter. H Flor driving antinociception In its early …
Driving Matters Navigating the Modern World Drs. Karlene Ball (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Daniel Roenker (University of Western Kentucky) and Jerri Willis (University of South Florida) first demonstrated the …
Improving Yourself Taking a holistic approach to improving your Personhood. This is my perspective, based on the research summarized in earlier chapters. Refer to those chapters for references supporting these …
“Today Is The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life” GROW AGAIN. Begin that transformation to a new, better place in life TODAY. My perspective; needs no additional annotation …