The quote, "And that, simply through hard work and memorization, you can change the actual structure of your brain (no chemicals needed)," was interesting to me. Therefore, I clicked on the link which led me to another page about how we can change the structure of our brain.
According to the page, we can change our brain structure simply by doing the same thing repetitively, or by doing something different from the usual. There are no drugs or any other strange treatments involved in this. This also explains why many times psychotherapy works as well or even better than drugs on mental disorders. Psychotherapy helps you think and act differently, causing your brain to function differently, leading to a change in your brain structure.
In the year 2000, studies were done on taxi drivers' brains. It was discovered that taxi drivers who drove longer had a larger and more developed posterior hippocampus, which stores a spatial representation of the environment. Not only that, but this research shows that even adult brains, which have stopped growing in size, can also change. All that is needed to change the structure of the brain is repetitive working or doing something different from the usual.
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Wow, we can change our brain... Your topic is quite interesting.
As a suggestion, I think it would be better if you explain more from the article. It would make things more understandable.
Oh, I read this article too! It's really interesting how such little things can make such a big impact to.. our brains. O_o
oh that's so coool. interesting to readd hmm.. maybe I should try and see if I could change my brain..
Yes our brains are very intriguing things. It is very intriguing how flexible our minds our and how much they can change.
gosh current technology made people gets more and more crazy, but i like it lolz.good pick on the article
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