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This episode starts at the beginning, in the shaping of the brain! Learn how the connectome is built and why it matters to Occupational Therapy.

References Used This Episode

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Collins, M. (2001). Who is occupied? Consciousness, self-awareness & the process of human adaptation. Journal of Occupational Science, 8(1), 25-32.

Doidge, N. (2007). The brain that changes itself: Stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science. New York, NY: Penguin

Eagleman, D. (2015). The Brain: The story of you. New York, NY: Pantheon Books.

Freeman, W. (2004). How and why brains create meaning from sensory information. Internal Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 14(2), 515-530.

Goldblum, N. (2001). How our networks learn. The brain-shaped min. (pp. 54-65). Cambridge: Cambridge Press

Howard, P. J. (2014). The owner’s manual for the brain (4th ed). New York: William Morrow.

McEwen, B. S. (2010). Stress, sex, and neural adaptation to a changing environment: Mechanisms of neuronal remodeling. Learning Memory, 1204, 38-59.

Seung, S. (2012). Connectome. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing.