Our brain is like a massive circuit board. Stimulus, thoughts, reactions, emotions - are passed on from neuron to neuron as they fire through a series of synapses. A synapse happens whenever one neuron passes information to the next.
Our brain processes more than 86 billion action potentials per second. Every second of our lives, it has the capacity to add 700 new synapses.
We are carrying an incredible super computer within our cranium - our brain - and we do not know enough about it yet.
But what happens when the brain is damaged or overworked? How does it cope?
Neuroplasticity, or brain plasticity, refers to the brain's ability to change. In case the brain is damaged, overheated, or asphyxiated (strangled from a lack of oxygen), it loses cells. While these cells don't grow back, our brain has exhibited an amazing ability to reorganize itself by forming new connections between cells
Even more surprising, as knowledge increases, the areas in the brain that deal with this growing knowledge also grows ni size by developing more convolutions!
In short, we are not born with an unalterable brain. Like any other part of the body, the brain is a physical organ that can be nurtured and trained to grow its capacity.
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