• Question: What happens when the connections stop working in the brain?

    Asked by JackScienceFan13 to Aoife on 13 Nov 2019.
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      Aoife Campbell answered on 13 Nov 2019:

      It depends on what causes the connections so stop working but this might only happen in a small section of our brain so we’ll still be able to function properly. The brain can rewire itself (this is called neuroplasticity) to bypass the broken connections

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