Most people don't know that you can change your brain structure. A recent study done by John. M Grohol showed that taxi drivers had altered their brain structure. They noticed that the part of the brain that stores representation of our environment was much larger compared to the average brain.
These data are in accordance with the idea that the posterior hippocampus stores a spatial representation of the environment and can expand regionally to accommodate elaboration of this representation in people with a high dependence on navigational skills. It seems that there is a capacity for local plastic change in the structure of the healthy adult human brain in response to environmental demands.
So with that said, you can alter your brain just by doing something differently. That's why some people believe that psychotherapy is a lot better than drugs or any other medication used. People leave the office often feeling different about themselves and others. You act and do things in a way that YOU never thought possible.
http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/02/29/can-a-person-change-their-brain-structure-yes/
http://www.addictionsearch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=580
http://www.amazon.com/Train-Your-Mind-Change-Brain/dp/1400063906
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nice. thanks for reading that far into the article because i wouldve never known this if you hadn't had done that
that's prettty cool. psychotherapy > drugs.
ooh I just read this from someone else tooo, yeahh I think it's pretty awesomee how we can change our brains without using drugs and all those stufff.
Oh I was gonna do my blog about this too! It's amazing what we can do with psychotherapy.
That was very insightful and quite interesting about how we can alter our ownselves. very nice post.
Hey I read about the taxi drivers too! I completely agree that you need to witness osmething rather than take meds to cure yourself.
Very interesting read! The fact that we can alter our brains simply by doing something differently is absolutely astounding. Overall, great post.
Wow that was really interesting. Good job!!!
Good post. I didn't know that we could actually change our brains stucture without the aid of drugs. Very informative.
People should really read this and get psychotherapy instead of going for the drugs.
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