How Neuroplasticity Works

Neuroplasticity works through several layered mechanisms: synapses strengthen or weaken with patterned activity, dendrites and axon terminals physically remodel, neurons rebalance their overall excitability, myelin adjusts signalling speed, and larger networks shift which circuits carry a task.

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