Summary Of Use It Or Lose It: A Good Brain Pruning

The passage Embarrassed? Blame Your Brain is about the hormones your body releases that cause embarrassment because of social problems. The next passage Use It or Lose It: A Good Brain Pruning is about how parts of your brain go away when they are no longer being used, so that other parts of the brain can become better at the skills and information you need. The passages show various relationships with the brain and the differences between embarrassment and brain pruning.

The passage Embarrassed? Blame Your Brain is about the way your brain reacts to social problems. As our brain develops it changes to help us fit in with others. The author presents this point, “Because of these brain changes, teens start reacting more strongly to social problems.” In addition to this, your body releases stress hormones that makes fitting in essential. Furthermore, our emotions differ depending on other parts of the brain. This demonstrates a key point, “Our thoughts and feelings depend on the

Connections in our brain are used to build networks for the things we experience. These connections in our brain are responsible for what we sense, think, feel, and do. This supports the idea that brain pruning is vital, “…The pruning process is important too, because pruning allows your brain to become increasingly more specialized so that you are better at the skills and information you use.” This shows that because of brain pruning we can improve the skills and information we need. This supports the idea that brain pruning makes your brain unique, “And if you experience the same things over and over… the stronger the networks related to that skill become.” This allows our brain to be specialized in the way we think or feel. Brain pruning helps our brain to become personalized to