Conversations That Matter: The brain that changes and heals itself

Our brains are so complicated that neuroscientists are still only at the beginning of understanding how that grey matter inside our skulls works.
For centuries the brain was completely misunderstood. Then, as we started to unlock the myriad regions and elements of the brain, a range of theories emerged about how it worked. Most have been set aside as neuroscientists introduced functional magnetic resonance imaging to map our brains.
Over the past 25 years, fMRI’s have reshaped ou