The will, it was becoming clear, has the power to change the brain - TopicsExpress



          

The will, it was becoming clear, has the power to change the brain - in OCD, in stroke, in Tourettes, and now in depression - by activating adaptive circuitry. That a mental process alters circuits involved in these disorders offers dramatic examples of how the ways someone thinks about thoughts can effect plastic changes in the brain. Jordan Grafman, chief of cognitive neuroscience at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, calls this top-down neuroplasticity, because it originates in the brains higher-order functions. The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force Jeffrey M. Schwartz, M.D. and Sharon Begley
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 09:02:03 +0000

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