If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.
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Michael Merzenich is an American neuroscientist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco. He is widely recognized for his pioneering work in the fields of brain plasticity and cognitive neuroscience, particularly in relation to how the brain can adapt and change in response to experience and learning. Merzenich is also known for his development of therapeutic techniques and technologies aimed at improving cognitive function in aging and neurological disorders.
b. 1934
If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.
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