Ep. 480 — Frank Bruni
The Axe Files with David Axelrod
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Is the Brain Fading Slowly After a Certain Age?
There's a whole field now of recent decades called neuro plasticity, where we understand that people who have suffered trauma can regain another sense. I talk about this at least briefly in the book im. And it is something that's fundamental to our able to age, to our ability to adapt. It used to be the case, up until just decades ago, that doctors believed that the brain kind of just kept fading slowly after a certain age.
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