One of the fascinating things I’ve been reading about is that the wiring of our brain, even among the middle-aged and elderly, is not fixed, but is malleable, flexible, and constantly adapting to the choices we make about how to use our brain. Here are some resources about this topic followed by a fascinating video interview with Norman Doidge, author of The Brain that Changes Itself.
- The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science, by Norman Doidge
- Virtue Reborn, by Tom Wright
- “The Neuro Transformers Culture & the Malleability of the Human Brain“, by Robin Phillips
- Soft-Wired: How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Can Change Your Life, by Michael Merzenich
- Taylor Study Method Posts on Neuroplasticity