When I wrote my post – A Healing Brain, I touched on something that still amazes me every day: the brain’s ability to rebuild itself. Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity might sound like big technical words, but really they boil down to this simple truth — a damaged brain can learn again, provided we keep nudging it in the right direction. That “retraining” is absolutely vital. If we don’t guide the brain towards good habits, it’ll quite happily settle into the bad ones instead.
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