NEUROPLASTICITY

About:

• Neuroplasticity – or brain plasticity – is the ability of the brain to modify its connections or re-wire itself.
  
  
• Cause: Neuroplasticity occurs in the brain under two primary conditions:
  1. During normal brain development when the immature brain first begins to process sensory information through adulthood.
     
     
  2. As an adaptive mechanism to compensate for lost function and/or to maximize remaining functions in the event of brain injury.
     
     
  
  
  
• Significance:
  • This flexibility plays an incredibly important role in our brain development (or decline) and in shaping our distinct personalities.
    
    
  • Without this ability, brain, would be unable to develop from infancy through to adulthood or recover from brain injury.