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Neurons are by themselves responsible for the experience of pain. The brain can adapt and manage chronic pain by:
Apart from these, there are some regular things that we can do to treat chronic pain: exercising, avoiding junk food, quitting smoking, keeping the mind engaged and practising mindfulness.
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The human brain is not static, but is shape-shifting, upgrading, maintaining and housekeeping itself all the time.
The constant rewiring, adapting and upgrading is happening not just in our formative years, but through the course of our lifetime. This n...
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Psychiatric disorders, stress, anxiety and depression are by itself neuroplasticity, but in a negative, destruction-oriented way.
The damage caused to the brain by these mental disorders encourages unhealthy and dangerous pathways.
Breathing exercises, body awaren...
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One can boost or enhance neuroplasticity by:
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Neuroplasticity has two broad types:
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When the brain learns new things, it connects neuron cells and creates new pathways. Learning new facts may not be very useful, but if one learns a new language, skill or a musical instrument, the neuron magic starts to happen and the rewiring begins.
If we have a g...
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Patients with severe brain damage are able to rapidly heal themselves, practically remodelling the brain a few days or weeks after the trauma.
Whatβs 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...
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Depression and anxiety can be regulated and reversed by certain exercises:
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While neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain to form fresh connections and to rewire itself, neurogenesis is the brainβs ability to grow new neurons.
Experiments in the 1960s discovered that traumatic events, stress and anxiety are detrimental to the n...
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Apart from forming new pathways and connections, neuroplasticity can also:
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