“A consequence of the brain’s plasticity is that it may change with every experience, thought and emotion, from which it follows that you yourself have the potential power to change your brain with everything that you do, think, and feel.… — Elkhonon Goldberg Copy Share
“A consequence of the brain’s plasticity is that it may change with every experience, thought and emotion, from which it follows that you yourself have the potential power to change your brain with everything that you do, think, and feel. So brain fitness and optimization are about much more than crossword puzzles and blueberries; they are about cultivating a new… — Elkhonon Goldberg Copy Share
“Cognition and emotion are both critical parts of normal functioning. As neatly summarized by Dr. Robert Sylwester (whose interview can be found at the end of this chapter): “Emotion is the system that tells us how important something is. Attention focuses us on the important and away from the unimportant things. Cognition tells us what to do about it. Cognitive… — Elkhonon Goldberg Copy Share
“Recently, we uncovered an important mechanism by which a month of mindfulness meditation (about 11 hours of practice, 0.5 per day, 5 days a week) improves attention and self-regulation (Tang et al 2010; 2012). This mechanism is a change in the white matter that conducts signals into and out of the anterior cingulate gyrus. The anterior cingulate is an important… — Elkhonon Goldberg Copy Share
“Other studies show that plastic changes in the brain can even be observed after just a few months. For instance, in 2006, researchers imaged… — Elkhonon Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Such networks of neurons are built following the principle that “cells that fire together, wire together” (Hebb’s rule). In short, neurons that are frequently… — Elkhonon Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Working memory is the type of memory that allows us to both hold information in mind and work on it as needed.” — Elkhonon Goldberg Copy Share Image
“collaborator of our lab, Dr. Yiyuan Tang, studied the impact of mindfulness meditation with undergraduates to improve executive attention, finding significant improvements as well.… — Elkhonon Goldberg Copy Share Image
