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Your Brain's Untapped Potential: The Living Software That Rewires Itself

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Discover how your brain functions as a prediction machine, not just a processor. Drawing from Lisa Feldman Barrett's groundbreaking research, Andrew Huberman's neuroscience insights, and studies on neuroplasticity, learn practical ways to harness your brain's remarkable ability to adapt and grow.

Your Brain's Untapped Potential: The Living Software That Rewires Itself
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This podcast was created using BeFreed’s AI, based on selected books, the creator’s learning goals, and their preferred tone.

10% Happier with Dan Harris
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https://share.snipd.com/episode/7d99364b-cfe5-4eb8-a185-14ea9a9246f0
Huberman Lab Podcast
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https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/how-to-increase-motivation-and-drive
Motor skill learning requires active central myelination
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25324381/
Human hippocampal neurogenesis drops sharply in children to undetectable levels in adults
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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6179355/
A meta-analytic review of the effects of exercise on brain-derived neurotrophic factor
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25455510/
Neuronal Activity Promotes Oligodendrogenesis and Adaptive Myelination in the Mammalian Brain
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https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1252304
Jill Bolte Taylor — My Stroke of Insight
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https://www.ted.com/speakers/jill_bolte_taylor
Sleep Drives Metabolite Clearance from the Adult Brain
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https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013Sci...342..373X/abstract
Optimizing Distributed Practice: Theoretical Analysis and Practical Implications
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https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1027/1618-3169.56.4.236
Thinking, Fast and Slow
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/c062419a-f031-4c16-82ad-cda7884381ed
Action spectrum for melatonin regulation in humans: evidence for a novel circadian photoreceptor
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https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/11487664/Action_spectrum_for_melatonin_regulation_in_humans%3A_evidence_for_a_novel_circadian_photoreceptor_
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35721097-how-emotions-are-made
Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neural Plasticity
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124718307551
You can grow new brain cells. Here's how
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https://www.ted.com/talks/sandrine_thuret_you_can_grow_new_brain_cells_here_s_how
Adult hippocampal neurogenesis is abundant in neurologically healthy subjects and drops sharply in patients with Alzheimer’s disease
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https://www.nature.com/nature-index/article/10.1038/s41591-019-0375-9
Huberman Lab Podcast
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https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/how-to-focus-to-change-your-brain
Default Mode Network Modulation by Psychedelics: A Systematic Review
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10032309/
Exercise training increases size of hippocampus and improves memory
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https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1015950108
Absence of structural brain changes from mindfulness-based stress reduction: two combined randomized controlled trials
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35594344/
Long-lasting potentiation of synaptic transmission in the dentate area of the anaesthetized rabbit following stimulation of the perforant path
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1350458/
Sleep and synaptic homeostasis
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0140525X05430022
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/the-body-keeps-the-score-by-bessel-van-der-kolk
Synaptic Pruning by Microglia Is Necessary for Normal Brain Development
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https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1202529
The maturing architecture of the brain’s default network
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https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0800376105
The Brain That Changes Itself
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/the-brain-that-changes-itself-by-norman-doidge
Retrieval Practice Produces More Learning than Elaborative Studying with Concept Mapping
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https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1199327
Huberman Lab Podcast
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https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/dr-matthew-walker-the-science-and-practice-of-perfecting-your-sleep
Test-Enhanced Learning: Taking Memory Tests Improves Long-Term Retention
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01693.x
Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality
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https://ed.ted.com/lessons/your-brain-hallucinates-your-conscious-reality-anil-seth/
Modern Wisdom
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https://muckrack.com/podcast/modern-wisdom/episodes/5054771-987-dr-lisa-feldman-barrett-the-new-scienc/
Effects of sleep and waking on the synaptic ultrastructure
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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2019.0235
Huberman Lab Podcast
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https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/dr-wendy-suzuki-boost-attention-and-memory-with-science-based-tools
Action video game play facilitates the development of better perceptual templates
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https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1417056111
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
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https://www.befreed.ai/book/livewired-by-david-eagleman
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