08-01-2017 07:00 via theguardian.com

Changing the way you think | Dan Glaser

It’s all too easy to give up on our resolutions, but new research shows that with perseverance we can rewire our brains even in adulthoodMany of us may already be struggling with our New Year’s resolutions, but at least we can take comfort in modern neuroscience. Forty years ago, we’d have been less hopeful.Back then neuroscience would say that the brain was fixed after early childhood. One famous experiment in the 1960s showed that if kittens were placed in a visually deprived
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