How the Brain Got Liberated

They mystery of the human brain recently took a step closer to being solved. This didn’t happen through a single breakthrough or because of an Einstein moment. Instead, an old belief was overturned by many separate researches. The old belief held that the brain couldn’t heal itself. Unlike almost every other organ, healing supposedly didn’t exist in the brain, so that once wounded or impaired, the damage was permanent. Now we know that’s not true.

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