Andrew Huberman· PhD
One of the ways in which we can all get plasticity at any stage throughout the lifespan is through deficits and impairments in what we call our sensory apparati, our eyes, our ears, our nose, our mouth, and there are some very dramatic and somewhat tragic examples of people, for instance who have genetic mutations where they're born without a nose and without any olfactory structures in the brain so they cannot smell.