livewired the inside story of the ever changing brain

It actually changed a couple of my habits.īB: Before we jump into the conversation with David, let me tell you a little bit more about him. Is the brain malleable? Does it stay malleable? And if so, what does it take to do that? I think you’re going to love this conversation. We’re going to talk about David’s new book, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain, and we’re going to talk about one of my weird favorite topics, which is neuroplasticity. I think some of that is just reserved under the category of “forever mysterious,” but I do believe we’re learning more and more important things about the brain and how we can live and make choices in ways that make us healthier and not just physically healthier, but neuro-biologically healthier. And I can tell you right now that I am a firm believer that we will never know everything there is to know about the brain. He’s a neuroscientist, a New York Times best-selling author, a TED speaker and a Guggenheim Fellow, and he has done some incredible research over the decades about the brain and how it works.

Brilliantly engaging, Livewired is as deeply informative as it is accessible.Brené Brown: Hi everyone, I’m Brené Brown, and this is Unlocking Us.īB: In this episode, I am talking with my friend, Dr. Eagleman covers decades of the most important research into the functioning of the brain and also presents new discoveries from his own research: about synesthesia, dreaming, and wearable devices that are revolutionizing how we think about the five human senses. To help us understand the nature and changing texture of that fabric, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman, with his hallmark clarity and enthusiasm, reveals the myriad ways that the brain absorbs experience: developing, redeploying, organizing, and arranging the data it receives from the body’s own absorption of external stimuli, which enables us to gain the skills, facilities, and practices that make us who we are. The magic of the brain is not found in its parts, but in the way those parts constantly reweave themselves in an electric, living fabric.

From the best-selling author of Incognito and Sum comes a revelatory portrait of the human brain about how it continually adapts, recreates, and formulates new ways of understanding the world we live in.

Livewired the inside story of the ever changing brain