Rewiring the adult brain & mdash; Scanning the mind of a blind ‘ Batman ’ reveals that novel maps can emerge in the adult brain

(The interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya (IDC Herzliya)) The adult brain is more malleable than previously thought, according to researchers from IDC Herzliya. They trained a 50-year-old man, blind from birth, to " see " by ear, and found that neural circuits in his brain formed so-called topographic maps - a brain organization previously thought to emerge only in infancy. This finding, reported in Neuroimage, sheds new light on the brain's ability for change and holds promise to restore lost functions, for example, after a stroke
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