Neurons That Fire Together Wire Together

Neurons That Fire Together Wire Together

Coined nearly 70 years ago by the Canadian neuropsychologist Donald Hebb, this clever phrase reminds us that every experience, thought, feeling, and physical sensation triggers thousands of neurons, forming a neural network. Messages traveling the same pathway in the...
Trust Your Gut

Trust Your Gut

This is a picture of my daughter and I when she was about 7 years old. She and her twin brother will be turning 21 next month and I still want to tell them how they should live, but I resist more often these days because no one wants to be told how they “should” or...