Neuroplasticity is, simply put, the brain’s (neuro) capacity for adaptation and change (plasticity), both physical change and functional change, in response to experience. Such experience includes healthy physical development, as well as thoughts, emotions, learning and memory, together with chemicals, substances, physical injury and brain damage. For most of the twentieth century, neuroscientific […]
In March this year, I was asked by the founder of the website, Children’s Guide to the Unknown, Dr Donna Thomas, to write a guest blog for this webspace. The website focuses on the experiences of children and younger people that are considered ‘unusual’ or ‘out-of-the-ordinary’. These experiences are common for children and the webspace […]
I think it is safe to say that a correlation between normal brain function and mental processing capacity is generally assumed. Mental processing embraces all that people can do with their minds including the capacity for thinking, decision-making, perception, emotion and memory recall. The correlation suggests that if a person’s brain function deteriorates their mental […]
