Take Eagleman’s Brain Plasticity course online

Here’s a great resolution for 2025: learn everything you didn’t know you didn’t know about the brain. Sign up for my new course on Peterson Academy.

Your vast forest of 86 billion neurons is adjusting itself every moment of your life, cradle to grave. In this course, you’ll learn the overarching principles of brain plasticity: how the brain comes to capture the details of its outside world, how circuitry is modified by activities and goals, why it’s harder to teach an old dog new tricks, how we remember, and disorders of plasticity, how it adjusts itself to its body and senses — and how new body plans and senses can be added. Discover why learning becomes more challenging with age, uncover the mechanisms behind memory, the role of relevance in expertise, and strategies for maintaining brain health. This course takes you on a whistlestop tour of the principles that make the brain the most remarkable thing we have ever discovered.

Enroll now: petersonacademy.com/courses/brain-plasticity?via=eagleman

"David Eagleman is the kind of guy who really does make being a neuroscientist look like fun."
- New York Times

"[A] neuroscientist and polymath."
- Wall Street Journal

"Eagleman has a talent for testing the untestable, for taking seemingly sophomoric notions and using them to nail down the slippery stuff of consciousness."
- The New Yorker

"David Eagleman offers startling lessons.... His method is to ask us to cast off our lazy commonplace assumptions.
- The Guardian

"A popularizer of impressive gusto...[Eagleman] aims, grandly, to do for the study of the mind what Copernicus did for the study of the stars."
- New York Observer