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Neuroplasticity is not a new discovery « Mind Hacks

I suspect the neuroplasticity hype was fuelled by two main things: the 1998 discovery that adults humans have a limited ability to regenerate neurons and the growth of functional brain imaging in both science and the media. … Continue reading

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Neuroplastic fantastic « Mind Hacks

One of the difficulties with the term ‘ neuroplasticity ‘ is that it’s actually fairly vague. It is often applied to normal neuronal changes (during memory formation, for example) to the growth of new neurons (neurogenesis) to the changes … Continue reading

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Neuroplasticity is a dirty word « Mind Hacks

Neuroplasticity sounds very technical, but there is no accepted scientific definition for the term and, in its broad sense, it means nothing more than ‘something in the brain has changed’. Continue reading

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