1. Neuroplasticity

• Also known as neural plasticity
• This is the capacity of the brain to change in response to experience and the environment.
• It changes the brain from updating the neuronal networks to the formation of new memories to larger structural adaptations.

While neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain to form fresh connections and to rewire itself, neurogenesis is the brain’s ability to grow new neurons.

Experiments in the 1960s discovered that traumatic events, stress and anxiety are detrimental to the n...

Patients with severe brain damage are able to rapidly heal themselves, practically remodelling the brain a few days or weeks after the trauma.

What’s weird is that a brain injury is a great time to take advantage of the rapid reorganization, recovery and other significant changes that a bra...