Lesson 3: Addiction And Physical Health - Slide 42
How Do You Create New Patterns Of Behavior?
- The brain is remarkably plastic
- Similar behaviors performed at different times use different neural circuits in your brain
- Your brain is always being altered and molecules being rearranged by every encounter and every interaction
- The second time you do the same action, the brain uses a track close to the old one
- The more you repeat a behavior, the more likely the brain will use a neuron pathway in the same general area
- By repetition of a physical or mental activity you create new pathways in your brain
Notes:
Pg. 208-210, Doidge, Norman, “The Brain That Changes Itself,” Penguin Books, New York, 2007.
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