Neuroplasticity refers to the brain’s natural ability to change and adapt at any age. These changes, which can be for better or worse, play an important role in the brain development and hence shaping our personalities. The notion debunks years’ old myth that the brain develops only during a critical period in early childhood and […]

While Neurogenesis refers to the ‘birth’ of new neurons, Neuroplasticity stands for the brain’s ability to change and adapt in response to environmental stimuli. Our brains may be aging, but they are also continuing to develop (Neurogenesis) and change (Neuroplasticity). Both notions challenge the previously thought view that the brain develops only during a critical […]

Today, Neuroplasticity plays a significant role across a wide spectrum of brain diseases. Most of the research on neuroplasticity has been focusing on stroke and other central nervous system diseases and injuries. Since the adult brain is not entirely “hardwired”, the cortical and subcortical rewiring of the neuronal circuits can take place in the brain […]

Through the science of Neuroplasticity, now it is known that the brain has the natural ability to form new neural pathways and connections in response to several external environmental factors. This discovery means that the brain is a plastic organ that can be retained and repaired by using techniques well-suited to a long-term degenerative disorder […]

After a stroke, certain parts of a survivor’s brain can be damaged (depending upon stroke type). This results in few functions becoming impaired as they were once held in earlier healthy (but now damaged) parts of the brain. Neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to rewire itself after injury, allows the stroke survivor’s brain to rewire functions […]