His aim is to come up with a treatment combining drugs, electrical stimulation and plasticity-based therapy to help the 700, 000 Americans each year who are left with some permanent impairment from a stroke.

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In younger patients, the brain has greater plasticity and capability for recovery of functions.

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It is dependent on the plasticity of the brain, and on the fact that experience is as powerful an agent of change as natural selection.

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Forcing both eyes to co-operate increases the level of plasticity or adaptability in the brain and allows the weak eye to relearn how to see, he said.

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Last week I attended a coaching conference where Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz, UCLA Professor of Psychiatry and author of You Are Not Your Brain, spoke about his research findings on neuro-plasticity.

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The medical profession is unfortunately exceptionally resistant to change, and the demands of physicians for suitable evidence may at times provide cover for its profound lack of plasticity (6).

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