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The adult brain, once believed to be hopelessly “fixed and immutable,” is now thought capable of much greater plasticity than ever before.

What we now know is that the brain is flexible, or plastic in the parlance of neuroscientists—more

Voilà dix ans, un dogme des neurosciences voulait que le cerveau contienne tous ses neurones à la naissance et que cette quantité ne soit pas modifiée par les expériences vécues. Les seuls changements au fil de la vie auraient consisté en altérations mineures des contacts synaptiques – les connexions entre neurones – et la mort des cellules due au

Here’s the bottom line: Plasticity means that your learning, and indeed your life, is not fixed.

Neurogenesis supports learning, memory, and adaptability. Neuroplasticity, on the other hand, is about strengthening or weakening neural pathways depending on how frequently we use them. The more we activate certain pathways, the stronger they become. Conversely, neglected connections weaken over time. I believe this flexibility is what allows us

The official scientific terms for how neuroplasticity works are pruning and sprouting, which mean exactly what they sound like: getting rid of some neural connections, patterns, and circuits and creating new ones. In a well-functioning brain, this process can happen in a matter of seconds.