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When I was at medical school we were taught that we were born with all the brain cells we would ever have, and that after middle age it was downhill from then on. But we now know this isn't true.
Brain-scan technology means that we can now peer inside the living brain and take a look at how it functions. Research is shedding light on something that scientists call 'neuroplasticity' - the idea that our brains keep on changing as we age. BBC News
When I was at medical school we were taught that we were born with all the brain cells we would ever have, and that after middle age it was downhill from then on. But we now know this isn't true.
Brain-scan technology means that we can now peer inside the living brain and take a look at how it functions. Research is shedding light on something that scientists call 'neuroplasticity' - the idea that our brains keep on changing as we age. BBC News
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