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James Doty — The Magic Shop of the Brain

On Being with Krista Tippett

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We All Have Brains, but Most of Us Have Never Seen Them

We all have brains, but most of us have never seen them. Tell me about the beauty of the brain that you are privileged to see. You know, in fact, one of the things that ruth, your teacher in the magic shop, was teaching you is something we now call neuro plasticity. And yet, we that word did not exist in 19 68. It's this simple and astonishing idea that our brains can change across the life span,. We can change our brains through our behavior.

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