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Neuroplasticity

The brain's ability to change the connections between nerve cells in response to experience and practice.

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle, Mark Wolynn

Explained in

• It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle, Mark Wolynn
• The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease, Marc Lewis

  The brain's ability to change its connections in response to experience. It is what lets us learn, remember and form habits.

• Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope, Johann Hari

  The brain's ability to rewire the connections between nerve cells in response to experience and the way we live.

• The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk

  the brain's ability to change its own wiring and habits throughout life, not just in childhood

• The Whole-Brain Child, Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson

  the brain’s ability to change its structure and the connections between its cells based on experience, especially strong in childhood

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