Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone BS 187 David Eagleman on his new book "LiveWired"
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Aug 27, 2021 AI Snips
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Brain As Livewired System
- The brain is 'livewired': it continually reconfigures its circuitry in response to experience.
- DNA provides part of the plan but the environment completes the wiring that makes you who you are.
Genes Only Kick Off Wiring
- DNA sets up potentials but experience drives final brain wiring and gene expression.
- Nature and nurture intertwine through activity-dependent changes and epigenetic feedback.
Motor Maps Learn The Body
- Motor and body maps in cortex are not genetically fixed and shift with use or loss of limbs.
- Babies learn by 'motor babbling'—random movement that lets the brain discover how to drive the body.