From the February 2017 issue of Massachusetts General Hospital's Mind, Mood, & Memory (MMM)
Your Adaptable Brain and How to Empower It
Keeping your brain flexible and responsive is essential to maintaining mental acuity as you age.
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A healthy brain is an adaptable brain—one that can respond to new information and circumstances, withstand the harmful effects of injury, disease, and stress, and repair itself following damage to, or loss of, brain cells and/or their connections. This capacity, called neuroplasticity, is essential to staying sharp in older age. “Brain circuits aren’t static—they’re receptive […]