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Neuroscience and the Plastic Brain

How your brain rewires itself in response to experience

Every time you learn something, your brain physically changes its structure.

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Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to reorganise itself by forming new neural connections. London cab drivers, who memorise thousands of streets, develop a larger hippocampus. Musicians who start early show enlarged motor cortex regions. The brain is not fixed — experience physically reshapes it throughout life.

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