Structural plasticity: rewiring the brain.
Experience may shape brain structure. Recent studies in which brain connections were traced in monkeys who had learnt a new skill or recovered from an injury suggest that extensive rewiring is possible, even in the adult brain.
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Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. heidi@fmrib.ox.ac.uk
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