Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Have you ever wondered why some people enjoy life to the fullest ... even when they face difficult challenges? They seem to place themselves in the path of good fortune... and now we see that very placement may be shaping their brains to succeed. How so?

At Technology Review … Courtney Humphries described how our brains are shaped by everyday experiences, through observing the brain in action. Check out how researchers at MIT used two-photon microscopy to visualize chemical activity in brain cells of living animals after the animals spent time in different visual environments.

"This is the first time we can look at the molecular activity inside individual cells in response to a sensory experience," lead researcher Kuan Hong Wang said.

The observation is hoped to be useful  to help neurological disease or degeneration, or to test the effects of therapies in treating these conditions.

“Josh Huang, a neuroscientist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York , says that this study is an innovative way to study plasticity, the ability of neurons and their connections to change in response to experience.” They hope to visualize the brain's activity on many different levels, from the instantaneous firing of a neuron to the long-term changes that help the brain to form it’s current states.

Imagine the use this research will be to help people rewire their brains for more a more successful day at work. What do you think?