Anil Seth, "Being You: A New Science of Consciousness" (Dutton, 2020)
New Books in Neuroscience
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Is It Possible to Rewire a Part of the Brain That Is Damaged?
There's a lot of what we would call plasticity, a lot of potential forca especially if the brain is damaged at an early age. In some cases you can completely rewire the brain where another part will perform similar function of the part which was removed. There are other less dramatic examples that happen all the time. If people lose their sight later in life, then the visual cortex will start to be recruited for other purposes. And one of the neure scientific dogmas that's been overturned is this idea that there's no new growth of brain cells once you reach a certain age. That turns out to be not true. New brain cells being generated, not in maybe not in huge
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