Clare Wilson sheds light on the brain's power to constantly remodel itself, the latest covid variant and why vitamin D cuts the risk of autoimmune disease
Hello, and welcome to this week’s Health Check, the weekly newsletter that gives you the health and fitness news you can really trust. To receive this free, weekly newsletter in your inbox,I am learning to play the ukulele, and while progress is slow, it’s very satisfying when I memorise a sequence of finger movements and it becomes automatic. When that happens, I can’t help wondering what is going on in my brain.
You might think this would feel strange, but Eagleman says people quickly get used to it and start to interpret the sensations as something akin to hearing. When I, Eagleman said: “When we talk to participants about this, we say: ‘Do you feel a buzzing on your wrist and you think, ‘Oh, that must be a dog barking?’’ They say: ‘No, I’m just hearing the dog.’”
What mechanisms are involved? Two decades ago, there was great excitement over the idea that an important one could be the growth of new brain cells. There was hope that this could be harnessed in treatments for stroke or Alzheimer’s disease, for instance, or that we could stimulate the process with “brain-training” apps. Then the idea that new brain cells can develop after adolescence became more contentious, asBut there are plenty of other ways that brains can rewire themselves.
. Straight after the surgery, the boy couldn’t walk or talk and was incontinent; after three months, he was almost back to normal, minus his seizures.
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