Enhancing the plasticity of the brain: Max Cynader at TEDxStanleyPark
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2024
- Dr. Max Cynader is Director of the Brain Research Centre, and the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health at Vancouver Coastal Health and The University of British Columbia (UBC). In addition, he holds the Canada Research Chair in Brain Development at UBC and is Professor of Ophthalmology. He is also a Member of the Order of Canada (CM), Member of the Order of British Columbia (OBC), Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada (FRSC), Fellow of The Canadian Academy for Health Sciences (FCAHS), and a Principal Investigator in Canada's Network of Excellence in Stroke.
Dr. Cynader was born in Berlin, Germany in 1947 and obtained his B.Sc. at McGill University in 1967, and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972. Following postdoctoral training at the Max Planck Institute, Dr. Cynader held positions at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and in 1979 was awarded the E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council as one of Canada's outstanding young scientists. He attained the rank of Professor of Psychology in 1981 and Professor of Physiology in 1984, and held the position of Killam Research Professor from 1984 to 1988. On arriving at UBC in 1988, Dr. Cynader headed the Ophthalmology Research Group at UBC until 1998, at which time he was appointed Founding Director of the Brain Research Centre.
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@1:00 What is brain plasticity: the PROCESS by which your brain changes. That is, the formation of new MEMORIES, and LEARNING a new skill. Also, processes of recovery from damaging events. And processes for adapting to changes in the environment.
@2:10 contiguity: neurons that fire together, wire together.
@2:26 MEMORY: "the ability to reconstuct the whole from a degraded fragment". The fragment can be a smell or a bit of music etc. which reconstructs (evokes?) a whole field of memories. This is because of the contiguity between the stimulus and those larger memories.
So... why is this important?
@8:30 becuase this explains the fundamental of how memory works.
So this can be useful for therapy.. for learning new skills.. etc.
@11:24 tips for sleeping well
> don't lie in bed awake if you can't sleep! Go and of the room and do a quiet activity.
Tumor necrosis factor.
@@pyramydseven Huh?
I have been studying the brain for the last 50 years; not as a scientist but with deep curiosity and passionate interest.
I have followed the incredible Scientific discoveries and the amazing imaging machine’s.
The jumps we have made in this science in the last decade and in particular, the last 5 years, are profound.
We now can literally see how how neurons that fire together are wired together.
Where I was, totally disappointed, in this lecture, is the mention of drugs and chemically changing this through us tinkering with out brain chemistry.
I can tell you from personal experience and and the lost years of my own productivity, because I believed doctors and I allowed them to tinker with my brains chemistry.
If the lecture above but focused on meditation, deep breathing, pausing, focusing on one task at a time; being extremely careful about what we expose ourselves to, what we read, who’s in our life;.
These are the things that change your brain not the sledgehammer of a crude drug!!
What do you think the next 10 or 20 years will bring in terms of discovery and treatment for people. I am also wondering about discoveries about mental health.
Jennifer Zeltzer that’s because scientist are sell outs to the elite! They work for them, are payed by them, and get many other privileges and exclusivities that come with status... his job is to practice the occult sciences to create weapons of mass destruction that can also be used to extend and enhance the lifestyle and experience of the elite to make them like god... it’s like going to the court of a dynastic king and queen, offering a precious and rare treasure that fulfills there’s deepest desires of power and greed, or giving an update on some important duty,mission, or project commissioned by the monarchy ...
Peaceful Benevolent Tree the only thing your going to see is more of the same... more narcotics to hypnotize the masses, mixing different cultures and belief systems and religions from the past to modify behaviors. And of course using nano technologies like pharmaceuticals and microwaves and radio waves sound waves etc to modify emotional responses, moods, at a remote distance... (like those metal detectors) so every internal modification can be done noninvasive...
Amazing. Please throw some light on what you discovered through your research around how to take care of behavioral issues through brain rehabilitation. As in, What exactly do we have to do to keep our mental health and be calm and be very productive.
I am also trying to carve my way to give the best output possible in my work. I have found few things very helpful: Affirmations(of what you want to be or what you want to feel), Breathing exercises and Present moment awareness practice! This has changed me for good
Decrease inflammation, increase blood flow, keep your head cool , dont put giant electromagnets on your head , have orgasims, laugh occasionally even if its drug induced ( thc ) but not chronic use . Understand homeostasis, while respecting the growth and strength that intermittent stress can stimulate. Be cautious with your chemistry, everything that has an effect will be balanced out creating dependency ...... dont drink alcohol except maybe 2 drinks a month ... bioflaviniods
He also forgot to mention to try to learn something new every few months. Read Every day. I have a head injury and I am better than I was before.
nina 22 That’s great Nina. How are you now?
Glad you're better than before, what have you done to become better after the injury? (I had a head injury and looks like my working memory does not work)
Thanks for sharing Dr Max!
both weight training and meditation have a massive impact on brain function
The exercise /hippocampus connection is not necessarily about working out, it's about being present and focusing on the muscle group we isolate. Neural activity is activated as a result of being present, opposed to thinking about the past or future. The latter pattern of thought generates little learning, rather recall and speculation. Contrastly, when a person is consciously present, the eyes, ears, skin, etc are providing new input for processing in the brain. Back to the exercise example, personally if I was doing shrugs, my internal voice would count the reps, each rep is complete following a slight pause so that my traps are under stress. I focus on the sensation and have inhaled air in my lungs as I hold. Upon release, I exhale, and focus on a couple of deep breaths before moving on to the next rep. I am completely present, necessary for peak performance of my brain so I am able to complete the momentary stress. Thus resulting in hippocampus firing.
amazing!
With a little movement brings more circulation this with everything you said ups it a bit, the more intense it is as you are present.
Thank you Dr. Max
While we watch this we are creating neural pathways about the neural pathways. So meta.
CardShopMeggels And now we're creating neural pathways about creating neural pathways about the neural pathways. Meta-ception.
CardShopMeggels Thats a fact. Good job.
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My right ear enjoyed this.
Thankyou for adding to my educate - I give feedback as I understand the importance in showing appreciation. I am so grateful . The knowledge you impart helps enormously to incorporate doing the right things for the brain. If any have ever suffered brain trauma then ALL you teach will make huge sense I am well aware the brain heals and now i know the reasons why. It is important to practice the strategies daily and reap the huge benefits. Lectures reinforce this. Thankyou again for the time you have taken to share your knowledge..
I now realised why people say that when we are studying we should apply some perfume and the same perfume should be used when we have to recall what we studied.
Its simply bcz neurons that fire together wire together.
The smell of perfume will stimulate the same patterns in the brain n will help us recall what we studied.
This was a really great talk!
I really liked this topic!!!
Thank you 😊🌿🦋
very inspiring talk
I can't wait for the future generations of awesome Nootropics! :)
mindvolution I wish that they had a limitless drug 😉👍🏽🏆
mindvolution n
NZT-48 I wish
Well presented. I will incorporate this education with my brain injury patients.
Brilliant !
THANK YOU FOR THIS CLIP AS A PERSON ATTEMPTING to recover FROM A STROKE , I FIND MYSELF SAD MOST OF THE TIME. HEARING SOMETHING TO PROVIDE some hope and encouragement is invaluable. again thank you
I recommend watching Dr Daniel Amen's videos about the brain too :)
Don't give up just keep moving inspite all the challenges,results will come sooner or later,there is also diet,sunlight,meditation,sleep and good company,then God will do the rest..
My mind is healing.thx
Good to know the results on the brain study. Thanks.
Good presentation
me encanto este video nunca habia visto la importancia de muchas cosas hasta ver este video gracias por informarnos sobre nuestro cerebro .
this was a good ted talk
Neuroscience is so fascinating and its discoveries are exciting.
Very interesting how the brain works hopefully and we can see another lecture from the doctor. go ahead
What a sweet guy.
exelent
This is a very good & informative talk, Dr. Cynader.
Passionnant !
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Excellent talk Dr.cynader
I love how he makes things much more fun by giving caricatures some reseptors, calling them boring or undemocratic and stuff like that :P
12:46-12:58 Physical exercise is important for the brain.
you hear that a lot but then it makes me wonder how does Stephen Hawking stay a genius without proper oxygen and a limited diet
Stephen Hawking's brain performance is probably declining. And maybe he has a good genetic for the brain(Born genius), but unfortunately not his body. I still believe that physical exercise will give a boost to your brain's performance. But you can't rely only on physical exercise, you still need to be willing to learn. Perhaps Stephen Hawking will be even smarter if he doesn't have ALS.
This is what I found from the internet. *Physical exercise boosts the brain’s rate of neurogenesis throughout life, while mental exercise increases the rate at which those new brain cells survive and make functional connections into existing neural networks.*
The key is to exercise + learning.
Yong bang yang Oh, I never doubted that exercise boosts brain performance! Exercise helps your blood circulate thus allowing your brain to get more oxygen, which it will otherwise be deprived of if you lead a sedentary life, which evolution never intended for us, if one could put it that way.
I just find it miraculous that Stephen Hawking managed to keep his smarts for so long despite being so impaired by his condition. Yeah, he's probably declining but it makes one wonder just how much better he'd perform if he was capable of doing exercise and eating properly too.
Rundra Interesting eh? Rundra, do you want to talk more about this topic(brain) in private? Tell me your facebook's name.
Sure, I'd like to. Once I figure out how to private message here LOL cant find the button
This is the solution to changing your life.
This is a wicked amount of cutting-edge information I've been wondering about all in one talk. For exercising I find it hard to believe learning to dance is not be the most beneficial for the brain. I became infinitely smarter during the two years i was learning and dancing everyday. And then I regressed drastically when somebody finally moved underneath me and i was forced to quit. Next time I take a place on the first floor.
The Narcissist's Scapegoat by
I think sometimes I need required just to cope with the people around me!
Fantastic information about the human brain?
Neurostimulation can also be accomplished with a combination of meditation and self hypnosis i.e. Reiki or Silva method as well as with chemicals or electricity. People can learn to do this for themselves and wouldn't have to spend $ on medical interventions.
Much more disease is chronic than acute. Chronic conditions come from deprivations i.e. malnutrition, lack of acceptance and safety, etc. Could neurostimulation grow loving kindness connections? And, would those pathways have to overwhelm the fear pathways to heal someone of the neurological source of their chronic diseases?
Yes, sure. But where are your sources for this talk? I want to read!
Great talk, whats the center you are conducting your researches in ?
Thnx 🌹
thanks to our scientists
Psychology lecture . Memory is the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information.
I need to tickle my pathways hahaha great talk!
Trascending neurons fireing & wireing together I've exercised during all my life and experience that my brain gets better and better in spite of age
Furthermore since the 60s I've been stimulating myself with neuro programs and also my clients and the amazing results that we get training our brain waves are brain and life changing
Thanks a lot and congratulations Max for your brilliant talk
Silverio Suárez McAuliffe good
Just curious, did you give the gene back to the jellyfish?
He talks about my grandmother as if he knew her .
I had to watch this for my psychology class , I enjoyed his quote early in the video."Neurons that fire together wire together, continuity breeds connectivity" They illustrate the point in an easy to understand little snippet.
he is .... adorable
When you are awake you rebroadcast the memories of the day from the hippocampus to the cerebral cortex too, correct?
the point is not brain is plastic or flexible the point is environment. Our brain are shaped by environment which is every thing around you. What we do is that we should manipulate our environment which is parenting, schooling, friends, information we eat daily, language, spouse etc. etc.
Of course I know our brain is plastic by merely knowing that won't change anything.
Imagine if you were born in North Korea could you have free mindset???
Jiashen Huang thank you for some advice I can actually use!!
You're wrong! The invioronment can change your brain due to its neuroplasticity!! That's so important to remember!! Otherwise you'd be stuck and wouldn't recover from a brain aneurysm for example!
Children need their sleep because they review the activities of the day and can remember the learning that they have received.
That is why learning and making mistakes in a safe learning environment is so important!
i read an article on body buildings effects on the brain in muscular development g
magazine back in 2005... cant remember who wrote it now
You need to do some bodybuilding do you can remember!
What is the developmental drug he is referencing?
Enhancing brain plasticity- 1. good night sleep
2. physical exercise ( cardio , resistance training )
+ addicitve behaviour
thanks bro. just saved me 18 minutes of generic bs
The brain wants to saving energy by choosing protection before a good will. The brain's working memory, the body has the hardware.
@3:05 & @5:23 "oh my god" is totally the icebreaker hahaha
sure it is working , so whats the exercise ? or is it a Marketing clip
great talk!
UjioSatashi g
Quien diría que sería tan importante hacer ejercicio:0
He said they are working on meds for this. There are some now like neuriva. Has anyone on here tried it and did it work?
ALz123alz that just work like a miracle I have been looking for this paper all day, and I just found it with this. Cool beans man.
Hi sir I had brain stroke recently. Now I am suffering from left side paralysis.i am doing physiotherapy for now , I can see little improvements with my limbs and hand movements but I am not satisfied with the recovery speed can you please my some treatment for my condition
You can see him tryng to make the crowd laugh
planetary survival advantage
These are Max's ending words tonight verbatim so beautiful :
Face infinity without flinching.
Believe in yourself.
Because that is your ticket out of here.
That's the ticket to return to God.
Realize there is only one Lord of Creation that is unconditional
love and service to Creation.
It isn't service to self, it isn't service to others at the expense of the self,
it isn't service to self at the expense of others.
It isn't service to Earth at the expense of the people.
It isn't service to the people at the expense of the Earth.
It's unconditional love for all.
If you can't love yourself then you can't love anything else.
The only way you can love yourself is to discover your true power.
Know that all the answers are in there, all you have to do is
believe in yourself.
You don't need justification from your peers .. it's all in your heart.
Just step into your heart and you'll change the world in a day.
6 years later, still no drugs?
2 questions:
who gets the patent/copyright?...
how much will it cost? (i.e who can afford it?)
Thank you for your question, the answers are
1) actually no, that's a common misconception
2)meh, you really need to stick to it
So brain placity is the theory that the brain can mould itself to tasks and function..it cannot regenerate dead areas of the brain...learning a skill like the violin could over time changethe brain shape and possibly function...in the uk we might build on this for patients with brain damage or cognative dysfunction although this research is complex....
Confirm with this VDO. I do transcranial magnetic stimulation at my hospital, quite work.
What is that
Muy interesantes reflexiones, estoy asombrado por la información recibida, para mi es sorprendente. gracias.
Iv had a few concussions, main thing is eat healthy and jog on a treadmill
Will listening to something while I sleep stop me from learning ?
How can I recover from ‘chemo brain’?
I have been living in a fog for the past 20 years. :(
I'm sure you can find neuroplastic exercises online to help.
Try fasting and only organic pure fruit and veg ,meditate and exercise
Jake F. Thanks! No one talks about brain fog post chemo. It's a real thing.
There’s a plethora of info on this online, search “chemo brain natural treatments.” Some of the top things are blueberries daily- especially organic wild blueberries, whole foods diet, organic meat protein, aerobic exercise, get enough sleep, turmeric, meditation, parayana deep breathing, coconut oil or MCT oil, and a host of other things and supplements are helping people with chemo brain and TBI.
I have brain fog for other reasons I’m recently trying to get myself out of it. I find physical exercise, even just walking, yoga and meditation help a lot. I know it sucks when it feels like you’re held back by your own brain. Word games and sudoku, reading.. exercising the brain. I’m trying to get to the point where I feel like I can learn and remember something new and not feel confused a lot of the time.
Why do we need synthetic drugs if neuroscience now tells us that the brain actually has plasticity? Surely learning how to rewire our own brains using neuroplasticity is more healthy and natural than using 'drugs'? I cant help but be concerned about the contradictions in this speech
Do cardio and weight exercise that's all. Save ur 17 mins of life.
piyush tripathi I'm sorry but I think you need to do more cardio and strength work. Later rewatch this talk, you should be able to take more things from it :)
You can also do those WHILE listening to this!
@@EclipseOfGod UA-cam binge cardio makes time fly
Thank you
Thank you😂
At the end, he say he has been studying the brain for over 50 years now. How old is he.......what age did he start ....from birth
What he's talking about are things like D-cycloserine used to help treat PTSD, schizophrenia, and help with issues like Alzheimer's.
Could certain video games stimulate and enhance brain functions such as (working) memory, attention, visuo-spatial acuity, mental flexibility, and even creativity? #neuroplasticity
They definitely can.
no
He looks like Rokko from Pokémon. These eyes
Tumor necrosis factor
Pay attention
So a drug is being developed to reap the neural benefits of exercise...without exercise? Why encourage poor physical health? Encourage physical activity instead.
we can choose what we like. i choose vegan because its cheeper and nutrition science metastudies. and compassion is kinda ok i guess. we can choose what we want to like. and start liking it. then fire together wire together repeat. ⌚🐣🐮🐀🚻🐰🐱🐐🐩survival advantage &unfuu snafu.
"b'doop, b'doop, b'doop, b'doop" ... wouldn't it be wild if neurons actually made that noise when they fired?
All of yall here bc you're curious but I'm here for school work XD
Why does it have to be a drug, per se. Are there any other approaches, such as new types of treatments that don't involve outside chemicals? Like… I dunno, a light box or something.
Doesn't have to be chemicals only. Cognitive stimulation works pretty well and fires neuroplasticity. Those games you play like Sudoku, Crosswords, etc ehnance your brain. There are also games designed for enhancing cognitive functions. Like Lumosity, Memorado, Brain Training, etc. All these things are Cognitive Stimulation. Actually, neuroplasticity explains why we learn everything. Practicing a new skill and getting better on it is explanied by plasticity. So, it's not just from chemicals only. There are other many ways of enhance your brain by neuroplasticity.
+Todd_Michael_ Schultz Neuro-plasticity is (essentially) INFINITE. IT is not a brain function (although there are manifestations of it there)..but really a function of your AWARENESS/MIND.. which you can grow and grow and grow. Your mind extends everywhere (from horizon-to-horizon).. and resides within and beyond your physical body.
YOU are a slice of your own consciousness having a limitation-centered Earth experience that utilizes a physical brain to generate a virtual reality-like experience (for your eternal soul) that includes illusory time and space.
I really hate making this about me, just know if you can make your way to my G+ profile.. you will find a NEW_ADVANCED_HUMAN of the "Age of Aquarius". 96% of the kids born post-2000 have this potential and a decent percentage born before 2k do. (i can tell you do just by the question) I cured ADD with thought, cannot get sick nor have a headache, and blah. blah.. a bunch of other skills, psychic, etc.
You are MUCH MORE than materialists like this video presenter can EVER IMAGINE. This ain't no joke. I'm real with pics. Throw away all drugs, don't eat (chemical-filled) meat, and drink ZeroWater-filtered water only.
PEACE ;)
+Todd Michael Schultz absolutely! Essential oils are finally being recognized as a safe alternative. Many are able to penetrate the Blood Brain Barrier such as Frankincense. It pretty amazing!
But this doesn't make any sense. If the drug is good for your brain, why would you refuse to take the drug?
I hope you can go here in the philippines Im a polio when I was a child upon reaching the age 50 I was struck by a stroke my polio body parts were the one severely affected by stroke I hope you can stimulate my brain by using technology that awakene the heurons affected by astroke to fasten my recovery pls find sometime to help me
Very good information. But no drugs!!! It is not the right solutions for problems.
"they say to exercise your mind to help stave off alzheimers- to 'learn new things' so my question is- if we forget how to do something over and over again because of dementia, and have to keep learning it over again, doesn't this count as exercising the brains and 'learning something new' each time we have to 'relearn it'?"
Stave? It's starve
@@atvman1014 stave off. To defend against or keep someone or something at bay;
Neuroplasticity- So plactic is coming into our brains-too!?
Our lord Jesus is Great
Well said🙏
ill save everyone the trouble of watching this.....exercise... lift weights
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+Peter Dragan ... And if you allow me ... please GO VEGAN for the sake of your health, the environment and the animals.
Veganism is great, fine i get it as a diet etc, but what if youre lifting weights and need animal protein. Its impossible, furthermore, is it true men experience a drop in testosterone by turning vegan? ... it does not appeal to me. Good luck to those who follow it though
Tejinder Singh Gladiators were fed ONLY grains and oat meal to build strong bones, muscles and power. Eating someone else's dead, decaying flesh would not necessarily give you the long term health you need. Horses are way much more powerful than us yet eat only grass, grains and seeds. They don't have to kill us to get their proteins. Broccoli, soy, beans have more protein than meat. And is without the cholesterol and other unwanted stuff such as growth hormones and antibiotics. As far as "a drop in testosterone by turning vegan" it sounds to me absurd. Please check out on UA-cam David Carter- NFL Professional Defensive Lineman... there are many other professional vegan players... on UA-cam as well. Also watch Best speech ever, Forks over knives, Europe's Dark Secret. Thanks
+cooperrosa ahaha lmao, gladiators were weak, they were small, only fed barley because they were slaves. why.the fuck would u want to give.meat to.them?
When he started mentioning prescription drugs I discredited him, and now makes he think twice what I listen to on Tedx.
Anna J scepticism is healthy. question everything untill your comfortable with it then question it again
Anna you're a bitch
LOL, skepticism is healthy and laughter is healthy too. Thanks for making me laugh Ea TcAtS. You know is there are better ways to express your anger, but I will let you wallow in your own ignorance ; ) have a nice day
+Anna J If he is a neuroscientist, he is possibly excited about medications to stop/reverse/prevent brain damage or decay, probably more for patients who present with brain injury or disease, etc.
Why would you discredit someone for trying to help people?
neurogenesis only in hypocampus it is said
Seretonin and magic mushrooms?
Ritalin makes me smart.
wait till it gives you sexual dysfunction. Get off it as soon as you can. Consult your doc and get off it man ASAP. Google PSSD if you already have some form of sexual trouble
@@pssdresearch9575 he's asexual maybe. Sorry, but seriously you're so right!!!
Caramelle Montserrat no it doesn’t. It’s probably doing you more harm than good you just don’t realize it yet
I kinda hate TED TALKS because of the limit of time it puts on important subjects and less important subjects. I wish TED TALKS would start to think out of the box and create two or three categories of presentations.
Why dont we forgot bicycle riding....after not riding it for so many years?
the red pill, or the blue pill? there's always a drug surrogate available.....
for a price, of course.
we'll see about the price after a test amount, i would suggest...
one way trip or antidote inclusive?
All is change it back in Afghanistan