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In a refreshing counterpoint to the biology-is-destiny drumbeat, Eagleman embarks on a lively tour of how we can transform our brains by exercising our own agency. As the CEO of NeoSensory, which makes sensory aids like wristbands that allow deaf people to feel sound, he’s been an architect of brain plasticity research for more than a decade. His expertise derives from his place at the center of the livewiring universe. “You are a different person than you were at this time last year, because the gargantuan tapestry of your brain has woven itself into something new.” “Our machinery isn’t fully preprogrammed, but instead shapes itself by interacting with the world,” Eagleman writes. He shows not just how we can direct our own neural remodeling on a cellular level, but how such remodeling - a process he calls “livewiring” - alters the core of who we are. We’ve all heard that our brains are more plastic than we think, that they can adapt ingeniously to changed conditions, but in “Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain,” Eagleman tackles this topic with fresh élan and rigor. Stanford neuroscientist David Eagleman is obsessed with probing the outer limits of this kind of neural transformation - and harnessing it to useful ends. BOOK REVIEW - “Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain,” by David Eagleman (Pantheon, 320 pages).
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