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We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and it seems…
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Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical…
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Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.
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Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment...
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All of us have worries. We worry because we are intelligent beings. Intelligence predicts, that is its essence; the same intelligence that…
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Analysis helps patients put their unconscious procedural memories and actions into words and into context, so they can better understand them. In…
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Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are…
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Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentration—studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing—are…
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The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive…
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