On neuroplasticity, young brains, and smartphones

Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and Smart Phones (Psy­chi­atric Times): In med­ical school, I was taught that the brain is hard­wired at birth. Dur­ing the past 30 years, neu­ro­science has defin­i­tive­ly shown that this is not the case at all. As our under­stand­ing of brain devel­op­ment advanced, it became clear that, dur­ing the first 3 years of life, neu­rons in…

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