Andrew Huberman· PhD
Neuroplasticity is a remarkable feature of the nervous system. In fact, it's the defining feature of the nervous system, which is its ability to change itself in response to experience.
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Neuroplasticity is a remarkable feature of the nervous system. In fact, it's the defining feature of the nervous system, which is its ability to change itself in response to experience.
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But all is not lost, so to speak, because there are other ways in which neurocircuits can create new connections and add new functions including new memory, new abilities and new cognitive functions. And those are mainly through the process of making certain connections, which of course are those things we call synapses, between neurons making those connections stronger.
There's a process in our nervous system that we call neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity broadly defined is the nervous system's ability to change in response to experience. But at a cellular level, that occurs through a couple of different mechanisms. One of the main mechanisms is something called long-term potentiation.