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And if maps could change, thought Merzenich, then there was reason to hope that people born with problems in brain map–processing areas—people with learning problems, psychological problems, strokes, or brain injuries—might be able to form new maps if he could help them form new neuronal connections, by getting their healthy neurons to fire together and wire together.

Source: The brain changes itself by Norman Doidge | link

isn’t this idea revolutionary?

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