The Plastic Brain |
Friday Feb 08 2008
By Shae Hadden | Bio
The other day a friend mentioned a term I'd never heard before: neuroplasticity. So I looked it up on Wikipedia (yes, click on the link and you can go there too) and was amazed to find out that scientists are now proving that our thinking can actually change our brain anatomy. Neuroplasticity challenges the conventional wisdom that specific brain functions, such as speech and vision, are located in a specific cortex (or center). The traditional medical paradigm focused on the lower brain and neocortical areas as being unchanging after development, limiting our capacity for language development among other things. But this point of view didn't explain why some people could expand their learning capabilities and have one area of the brain assume a specific function that 'belonged' to another area (whether there was an injury or not).
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Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
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