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Lesson 1: Plasticity of the brain
Plasticity: The ability of the brain to change structure and
function through experience
Myelination
The development of white fatty myelin
Synaptogenesis
Formation of new synapses between the brains neuron
Synaptic Pruning
The frontal lobe
Implications of Brain Plasticity

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