Brain Rewiring
The Best Ways to Rewire Your Brain
By Austin Perlmutter, MD
Until very recently, scientists believed the adult brain was a relatively static organ. The basic idea was that your brain grew and developed during childhood and then became relatively inflexible, until it slowly started to decline in function when we reached middle age. But this is no longer considered accurate. In fact, the idea that the brain is static in any sense has been fundamentally overturned by breakthrough discoveries in neuroscience over the past several decades. Key to this reconceptualization is the understanding of neuroplasticity — the brain’s ability to reorganize its structure, function, and connections in response to experience, learning, and environmental input.
