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The Neuroscience of Neuroplasticity

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How Does the Connection Between Nuron a and Nuron B Get Stronger?

Neurons that aren't being used for anything get re purposed. That's what's underlying the neuro plasticity. And the brain's kind of greedy, so it's going to see those neurons not doing anything and say, welhay, let's use them to do this. All right. So here we go. This is a bit of a review from our episode in season one on learning,. But i'll cover it all the same. Let's just consider two neurons, neuron a and nuron b. For a stronger connection, more nero transmitters getting released, or there are more receptors to bind on to that nerro transmitter. You've made the connection between

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