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Originally Posted by markneil1212
thanks for the extra info. I wonder, even if they could be created on a large scale, what about the damaged ones? the damage to my thalamus causes all kinds of autonomic problems. Wouldn't those old cells have to be disposed of as well as new ones being created.
And for a function like sleep, wouldn't the different brain parts have to learn how to communicate with each other correctly?
I guess that's why some say to focus on dealing with the symptoms if you're an old timer. New timers still have time to be great again.
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I'm not a neuroscientist but as I understand it, neuroplasticity more involves reestablishing neural pathways and connections that it does generating new neurons. So the connections bypass the damaged ones and reestablish new ones.
Some interesting discussions and fascinating case studies are in the book "
The Brain that Changes Itself" by Norman Doidge, M.D.
08-26-2014, 10:49 AM
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