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SYSK Choice: How Your Brain Changes Who You Are & The Science Behind Beverages

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The Importance of Brain Plasticity

The key thing is that the brain is locked in silence and darkness inside the skull. And all it ever sees are these electrical spikes. So what we have been doing is building devices, building wearable devices by which you can feed in different kinds of information. We've revolutionized what's happening with deafness. We're doing this now with balance, with prosthetic legs, with blindness,. By feeding information in through other senses, in this case, through the skin, expanding the realm of perception of humans now. It doesn't matter how it gets there. As far as the brain is concerned, something like a drug withdrawal is very similar to the feelings of a broken heart.

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