Neuroplasticity

The human brain is the most complex physical entity in the universe.

According to the National Institute of Health, neuroplasticity, also known as neural plasticity or brain plasticity, is a process that involves adaptive structural and functional changes to the brain."

An article on neuroplasticity further states:

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Neuroplasticity is the brain’s capacity to continue growing and evolving in response to life experiences. Plasticity is the capacity to be shaped, molded, or altered; neuroplasticity, then, is the ability for the brain to adapt or change over time, by creating new neurons and building new networks. Historically, scientists believed that the brain stopped growing after childhood. But current research shows that the brain is able to continue growing and changing throughout the lifespan, refining its architecture or shifting functions to different regions of the brain. The importance of neuroplasticity can’t be overstated: It means that it is possible to change dysfunctional patterns of thinking and behaving and to develop new mindsets, new memories, new skills, and new abilities.

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Neuroplasticity and the potential to change one's personality

Big Five personality traits factor model

UC Davis researchers indicate:

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It has long been believed that people can’t change their personalities, which are largely stable and inherited. But a review of recent research in personality science points to the possibility that personality traits can change through persistent intervention and major life events. Personality traits, identified as neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness, can predict a wide range of important outcomes such as health, happiness and income. Because of this, these traits might represent an important target for policy interventions designed to improve human welfare. The research, published in the December issue of American Psychologist, is the product of the Personality Change Consortium, an international group of researchers committed to advancing understanding of personality change. The consortium was initiated by Wiebke Bleidorn and Christopher Hopwood, University of California, Davis, professors of psychology who are also co-authors of the latest paper, “The Policy Relevance of Personality Traits.” The paper has 13 other co-authors.

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The article How to Become a New Person Through Neuroplasticity states:

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In Atomic Habits, James Clear expands on this idea and suggests that changing your habits requires not only changing your thought patterns, but your underlying beliefs about yourself. If you want to change yourself to be more assertive, for example, but deep down you still believe you are a timid person, the changes you make toward being assertive will not last.) According to Dispenza, when an emotion lasts more than a few hours, it becomes a mood. When it lasts more than a few days, it becomes a temperament. When it lasts years, it becomes a personality trait. Replacing a negative personality trait with a positive one, then, requires changing the emotions that eventually build to that trait.

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Some of the key ways an individual can change their personality is through improving:

Neuroplasticity and various ways individuals change their personality

See also: Neuroplasticity and the ability of individuals to change their personality and Personality

Personality is the way people think, feel, and behave.

Some of the key ways an individual can change their personality is through improving:

• Listening skills
• Expanding one's interests
• Empathy and increasing praise of others
• Self-confidence
• Communication skills
• Positive/constructive thinking ability
• Level of integrity
• Assertiveness skills
• Stepping out of one's comfort zone
• Creativity and intellectual curiosity
• Journaling to increase self-awareness
• Teamwork skills though team activities and social networking
• Level of feedback from others (Mentors, coaching, asking others for feedback such as church members and clergy)

Journal articles

• “Nothing to see here”: No structural brain differences as a function of the Big Five personality traits from a systematic review and meta-analysis, Personality Neuroscience, 2022; 5: e8. doi: 10.1017/pen.2021.5
• Neural plasticity and cognitive development, Dev Neuropsychol. 2000;18(2):237-72. doi: 10.1207/S15326942DN1802_5.

See also

• Personality disorder

External links

• What Is Neuroplasticity, Psychcentral.com
• Neuroplasticity: How to Use Your Brain’s Malleability to Improve Your Well-being by Megan Call, Licensed psychologist, Director of the Resiliency Center, University of Utah
• How Neuroplasticity Works: Your experiences can change how you brain functions by Kendra Cherry, MSEd
• What Is Neuroplasticity, Psychcentral.com
• Neuroplasticity: How to Use Your Brain’s Malleability to Improve Your Well-being by Megan Call, Licensed psychologist, Director of the Resiliency Center, University of Utah