This ability to compensate for damage to the brain is particularly useful and impressive when the two hemispheres struggle to communicate.
When we learn to play an instrument, drive, etc., we create new connections in the brain. And the more we take this new path of information by training ourselves, the faster the signal passes and the more we progress. The little path ends up becoming a real highway. Our brain, before and after this learning, is no longer quite the same.
This ability to create new pathways – called brain plasticity – exists throughout life. It even allows the brain to circumvent a malformation problem, such as the absence of the corpus callosum which is the most important structure for our two cerebral hemispheres to communicate with each other. However, one in four thousand newborns is born without a corpus callosum, without this necessarily having an impact. “ Thanks to cerebral plasticity, very active during development, the brain compensates for this absence of corpus callosum through alternative pathways. Communication between…
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