Marion Diamond - How The Environment Impacts The Developing Brain
A conversation with Michael Mendizza and Marion Diamond, Phd, Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley.
MM: Your work implies that the brain and nervous system is physically molding (adapting) itself to the environment moment to moment. What does that mean?
MD: One can say that the brain is responding to the external environment and to the internal environment at all times. The nerve cells are designed to receive stimuli, store information and transmit information. And we’ve shown that we can (physically) change the brain by changing the internal and external environments at any age.