3801??????? sleep time.

Almost 100 pages! OOoo!

I'm not up to the task tonight.

WOW!

this thread has flown!!

i'm impressed!!!

i got locked out of TFP on my work comp...

so i can't contribute...

but congrats guys!

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still in 5th place man! you can catch up! come on! :>

i'm trying to get to 1000 and then i'll probably stop.

Not before me you won't

Because i'm only a little bit behind

And i'm good at posting

And you've seemed to have forgotten to do so

So i'm probably going to catch up pretty quick

see already i've made a bunch of posts

I just read garfield

Now it's time to get back to work.

This is a little of what i'm doing

Brain plasticity refers to the changes that occur in the organisation of the brain, and in particular changes that occur to the location of specific information processing functions, as a result of the effect of experience. The term cortical plasticity is more commonly used, however there is no particular restriction of the phenomenon to the cortex. A common and surprising consequence of plasticity is that the location of a given function can "move" from one location to another in the brain.

The concept of plasticity can be applied to molecular as well as to environmental events. The phenomenon itself is complex and involves many levels of organization. To some extent the term itself has lost its explanatory value because almost any changes in brain activity can be attributed to some sort of "plasticity". Plasticity should be more restricted to adaptive events in the central nervous system rather than merely indicating any change in response to environmental input. For example, after a traumatic brain injury, if the organism can recover to normal levels of performance, that adaptiveness could be considered an example of "positive plasticity". However, an excessive level of neuronal growth leading to spasticity or tonic paralysis, or an excessive release of neurotransmitters in response to injury which could kill nerve cells, would have to be considered perhaps as a "negative or maladaptive" plasticity.

The main thing to know is that even the adult brain is not "hard-wired" with fixed and immutable neuronal circuits. Many people have been taught to believe that once a brain injury occurs, there is little to do to repair the damage. This is simply not the case and there is no fixed period of time after which "plasticity" is blocked or lost. We simply do not know all of the conditions that can enhance neuronal plasticity in the intact and damaged brain, but new discoveries are being made all of the time. There are many instances of cortical and subcortical rewiring of neuronal circuits in response to training as well as in response to injury. There is now solid evidence that neurogenesis, the formation of new nerve cells, is possible in the adult, mammalian brain--and such changes can persist well into old age.

this is the basic concept, my presentation is on Mulitmodal competition and compensation in development- a study of the visual system in congenitally deaf adults

which is a pretty fascinating concept, when you think about it

The brain developing into areas where it lost a sense in order to enhance it's existing senses

Mex you do have a large number of posts, i'm still about 20 behnid you

And it'll probably stay that way because my posting is about to get slow and irregular because I actually have to work

See how it is now?

yeah another post

Collateral Sprouting

Reorganization of neural structures

Neurotrophin!

Blah blah vblah

Damn I hate doing work

hello everybody!

how's it goin? :)

oooh skier is catching up!

i guess i can make it to 900 today right?

only like 30 more posts.... it's going well.

but it'd be nice to have someone to talk to in this tread.

so i'll just keep posting random shit.

im listening to internet radio right now. what are you listening to?

i'm gonna try something crazy.

i'd like to ask everyone to not post plz. it's important for my test.

can you plz not post?

so ya, i just tried this new google homepage. pretty coool