Neuroplasticity: Clinical Frontiers and Functions

The ability of the brain to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections throughout a person’s life is known as neuroplasticity. This mechanism allows neurons to compensate for disease and injury, and adjust their activities to changes in their environment. The fundamental processes underlying neuroplasticity is that individual synaptic connections are continually removed and recreated depending upon the activity of the neurons. An important consequence of neuroplasticity and one wit...