my messy brain
seeing my brain in new light & trying to work with it instead of against it
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our neglect of intensive learning as we age
Merzenich thinks our neglect of intensive learning as we age leads the systems in the brain that modulate, regulate, and control plasticity to waste away.
And if maps could change
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.