Friday, May 17, 2013

YOUR BRAIN CAN REWIRE ITSELF

Brain rewires itself after damage or injury, life scientists discover
May 17, 2013
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When the hippocampus, the brain’s primary learning and memory center, is damaged, complex new neural circuits — often far from the damaged site — arise to compensate for the lost function, say life scientists from UCLA and Australia who have pinpointed the regions of the brain involved in creating those alternate pathways. The researchers found … more…

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