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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 2003371, member: 37"] I can't get the article but unless there is a detailed discussion of the biological changes that take place in the brain I can't support the significance of these suggestions. The following article is excellent in explaining to the lay person the physical manifestations that take place in the brain that probably leads to behavioral differences between individuals. It's about PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) but it demonstrates my argument that behavior is conferred by physical differences (genetic, nature) and/or physical alterations (environmental/nurture) that take place in the brain, many of which are outside our control and in fact determine how we think, feel and act. [URL='http://brainblogger.com/2015/01/24/how-does-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-change-the-brain/']How Does Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Change the Brain? | Brain Blogger[/URL] The general population is behind the learning curve in placing the emphasis on will power or motivation as the exclusive and maybe even the predominate underlying factors between failure and success. Our military and scientists wanted to know what was underlying difference(s) between two soldiers who experienced an explosion that killed one of their buddies which resulted in one soldier developing PTSD but the other soldier having minimum lasting affects. The PTSD victim (and yes he is a victim), when he experienced the traumatic event, developed an alteration to the the amygdala, the hippocampus, and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (and probably other areas as well but not yet demonstrated) whereas the coping soldier had no such brain changes. Prior to the experience the PTSD victim's brain did not have those alterations. [B]It was something about the differences in the two brains that "allowed" one brain to resist change and the other to "succumb" to change.[/B] That ability to resist physical change is not active on the conscious level in this case and probably in most of the cases in which we scratch our head as to why someone can succeed and others fail. [/QUOTE]

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