The IB NeuroNerd

  Hello guys, it has been a while.... I know I said I’d post about the last week of December, and it’s been almost a month now, but I’m back, yay! Today I just came to share something with you guys that you may have known but if you didn’t and are learning about it today like I did, here it is. It is something called neuroplasticity , it is the brain’s capacity to change and adapt in response to new things like learning skills or injury mainly being active during the years of 5-21 years old as those are the years where activities such as those stated happen more frequently. It involves making new pathways in the brain, allowing us to experience and recover from those injuries. For example, let's say I hit a table corner as I was walking towards it. That is a painful experience and something I would not want my body to go through again, so my brain creates these neural connections. The next time I walk in the direction of a table corner, I will know not to walk directly toward...