Pulitzer Prize-Winning author, Ronald Kotulak, summarized recent scientific discoveries about the brain at the 45th Annual Meeting of the American Society on Aging (ASA) last March in Orlando, Fla. His discoveries were detailed by April Thompson on the ASA website.
According to Kotulak, scientists now realize that the brain actually organizes and constructs itself, something no other organ does. Rather than being hard-wired for growth, the brain wires and even rewires itself–for example, to enable it to continue operating in the wake of a stroke or spinal injury. “At the core of this new knowledge is the plasticity factor, a term used to describe the brain’s amazing capacity to constantly change its structure and function in response to experiences coming from the outside,” said Kotulak
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