Writers Choice:
Choose one question from the three below and answer it for the initial post.
Minimum one reference or more to an outside scholarly source (example Pub Med) using APA formatting. Reference /Cite the material response appropriately.
All answers, including responses, must be between 200 and 400 words, not including citations.
Choose one question from the three below:
Question1: Please discuss the saying “neurons that fire together wire together”, including its implication for health and wellness.
Question 2: Please discuss how and why DNA is not destiny, and how we might alter our gene expression.
Question 3: For those of you who are interested in the research on the Default Mode Network (DMN), please read the paper that I provided a link to under “Additional Resources” and explore how you experience your DMN.
Research on the Default Mode Network, a set of brain regions that become activated when we are not focused on a specific task, has been exploding in recent years.
This paper explains what the DMN is and speculates on its purpose.
Buckner, Randy L., Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna, and Daniel L. Schacter. “The Brain’s Default Network: Anatomy, Function, and Relevance to Disease.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences1124, no. 1 (March 2008): 1–38. https://doi.org/10.1196/annals.1440.011
Link: https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1196/annals.1440.011