How experience shapes the brain
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When you learn something new, the neurons involved in the learning episode grow new projections and form new connections. By contrast, stress, depression, ageing and disease can have the opposite effect, triggering neurons to break down and even die.
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- When you learn something new, the neurons involved in the learning episode grow new projections and form new connections.
- By contrast, stress, depression, ageing and disease can have the opposite effect, triggering neurons to break down and even die.
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