The Plastic Mind: How Science and Experience Shape the Brain—and How You Can Shape Your Life - Couverture souple

Skinner, Serena

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ISBN 13 : 9798998198304

Editeur : Avenmere Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

What if the person you have become is not the person you are destined to remain?

For much of human history, we believed the adult brain was essentially fixed. That our patterns of thinking, emotional responses, behaviors, and even our sense of identity were largely established by adulthood.

Neuroscience has changed that story.

Your brain is not a finished product. It is constantly adapting, reorganizing, and responding to the world around you. Every experience, relationship, thought, and repeated behavior has the potential to influence the neural pathways that shape how you perceive, feel, and respond to life.

This extraordinary capacity is called neuroplasticity.

And it may change everything you believe about who you are and who you can become.

In The Plastic Mind, nurse practitioner and author Serena Skinner takes readers on a fascinating journey into the science of the changing brain, revealing how biology, experience, and consciousness intersect to shape the human experience.

Drawing on more than two decades in medicine, Skinner makes complex neuroscience accessible, meaningful, and deeply relevant to everyday life.

Inside, you'll explore:

• The science of neuroplasticity: How the brain creates, strengthens, and reorganizes neural connections throughout life.

• Why we become who we are: How experiences, emotions, habits, and relationships shape the brain's patterns.

• The biology of change: Why breaking familiar patterns can feel so difficult, even when we desperately want something different.

• The brain and healing: How stress, trauma, learning, and supportive experiences influence our capacity for adaptation.

• Consciousness and emerging science: What research into meditation, altered states, and psychedelics suggests about brain flexibility and the potential for change.

• Becoming someone new: How understanding the brain can help us approach growth, identity, and transformation with greater intention.

But The Plastic Mind is more than an exploration of neuroscience.

It is an invitation to question the stories you've told yourself about what is possible.

Perhaps you've spent years believing you're simply wired a certain way. Perhaps old experiences continue to influence your choices. Or perhaps you're standing at a crossroads, wondering whether meaningful change is still possible.

Your past has shaped your brain. But it does not have to dictate your future.

Grounded in science and written with compassion, curiosity, and a profound appreciation for the human experience, The Plastic Mind challenges the notion that we are permanently defined by our conditioning.

Because the brain is not simply a record of everything we've experienced.

It is also the extraordinary biological foundation of who we may yet become.

The brain remembers. But it also rewrites.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Avenmere Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798998198304
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 209
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible