Neuroplasticity is a hope for healing

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Personally, I think that
the biggest discovery

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of the 20th century was
neuronal plasticity.

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Science has shown that
the brain is a very living thing

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and a marvellous organ
which is every day new.

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What you practice has
an effect in the brain.

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We say neuroscience that neurones

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who fire together wire together.

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And this is a very good
news for psychiatrist

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because if the patient have that
habit, negative inner discourse,

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he comes to us with cocaine
or depression or schizophrenia

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and we help the patient to
improve his vision of the world.

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The illness is the illness of course.

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But there is a flexibility.

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You can improve the patient even
if he's a scared schizophrenic.

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He can be a happy
schizophrenic, it's possible.

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So, the neuronal plasticity
allows us to be, you know,

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to be very very hard working
with these patients

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because we know that when
we practise psychotherapy,

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we practice networking
with nice people,

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we practice mindfulness or whatever
the form of psychotherapy,

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we know that psychotherapy
wires neurons

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and the people can
get some autonomy.

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They can keep what we teach
in the psychotherapy

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and they can they can
use it for themselves

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and they can be more free,
more autonomous.

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So yes, I believe that
all these can be trained

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and I know it is effective
because there is some brain imagery

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that show the improvement
of some circuits

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about autonomy
and emotional flexibility.

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We can see after already after
two weeks of daily practice

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some measurable changes
in the brain

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when you make some meditation
with some intensity during two weeks.