No Limits

The more I learn about the brain, the more hopeful I feel about stroke recovery. Neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to change continuously throughout a person's life. When stroke recovery feels out of reach, it is sometimes helpful to know that science is on our side.

In his book, The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge cites findings from researcher Michael Merzenich. "Merzenich argues that practicing an new skill, under the right conditions, can change hundreds of millions and possibly billions of the connections between the nerve cells in our brain maps... We can also change the very structure of the brain itself and increase its capacity to learn...The brain Merzenich describes is not an inanimate vessel that we fill; rather it is more like a living creature with an appetite, one that can grow and change itself with proper nourishment and exercise." p. 47

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