{"id":56,"date":"2009-07-07T01:47:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T08:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbyfastforword.wordpress.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2013-08-30T06:10:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T13:10:07","slug":"redesigning-the-brain-by-merzenich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/redesigning-the-brain-by-merzenich\/","title":{"rendered":"Redesigning the brain &#8211; by Merzenich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-57 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/files\/2009\/07\/02-jul-06-18-42.jpg?w=131\" alt=\"02 Jul. 06 18.42\" width=\"103\" height=\"125\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0This is Chapter 3 in Norman Doidge&#8217;s book, <em>The Brain that Changes Itself.<\/em>\u00a0 Read the story of Michael Merzenich&#8217;s journey of discovery from the very beginning.\u00a0 How did the term &#8220;neuroplasticity&#8221; come about?\u00a0For so many years, neuroscientists have believed that the brain had &#8216;windows of opportunities&#8217; and once passed,\u00a0hardwiring took effect.\u00a0 Now it&#8217;s understood that the\u00a0 brain is plastic throughout life, which leads us to great possibilities in education.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.sd41.bc.ca\/QuickPlace\/fastforword\/PageLibrary882574D800681BDF.nsf\/h_77B4A3B89E3B650F882574D8006EF308\/7E03431D28268AD7882574E3008134FA\/?OpenDocument\">Download chapter 3 here<\/a>, or better yet read the entire book.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It would be interesting to have\u00a0a discussion on this.\u00a0 What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0This is Chapter 3 in Norman Doidge&#8217;s book, The Brain that Changes Itself.\u00a0 Read the story of Michael Merzenich&#8217;s journey of discovery from the very beginning.\u00a0 How did the term &#8220;neuroplasticity&#8221; come about?\u00a0For so many years, neuroscientists have believed that the brain had &#8216;windows of opportunities&#8217; and once passed,\u00a0hardwiring took effect.\u00a0 Now it&#8217;s understood&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[84],"tags":[32,39,42,43,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/fastforword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}