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#1 Neuroscientist: After Listening to This, Your Brain Will Not Be the Same
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Today, you are getting a step-by-step guide on how to change your brain. Joining Mel is neuroscientist Dr. Lara Boyd, a professor at the University of British Columbia who directs the Brain Behaviour Lab there. This #1 neuroscientist will teach you how to rewire your brain at any age. There's a personal reason she's devoted her life to this work. Before becoming a neuroscientist, Dr. Boyd was a physical therapist. She spent three months unsuccessfully trying to help a man with a brain injury learn to walk again. Frustrated by how...
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Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast. Today's conversation is going to blow your mind because we have one of the world's leading neuroscientists here with scientific proof that you can change. In fact, Dr. Laura Boyd will tell you, by just choosing to hit play on this episode,
Your brain will never be the same. Dr. Boyd knows what she's talking about because she has spent decades studying the remarkable ways your brain can adapt, recover, and keep learning
even after a serious injury. And what she's gonna teach you today will change the way you think about your own potential. Dr. Boyd is gonna teach you three key ways
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