A Neuroscientist’s Guide to Changing Your Brain with Dr. Richard Davidson

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This season, we're sharing stories on how putting a hard price tag on gender-based violence is upending the status quo. Follow Hero wherever you get your podcasts. Pushkin. When I was in college, which I feel compelled to add does not feel that long ago, we were taught that people were pretty much born with all the brain cells they would ever have. Back then it was assumed that you start life with a certain number of neurons, and that's pretty much it.

The brain cells you were born with get shaped as you develop, and neurons that you don't use just die off. Under this old view, once you reach adulthood, the architecture of your brain is largely fixed. The door to your identity is locked, so to speak. But just around the start of the current century, scientists discovered something astounding. Our brains actually generate new cells all the time.

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