![]() ![]() You can imagine my relief when learning more about neuroscience and understanding that I may have been misled. I was convinced I was ‘killing’ my neurons! Based on my learning as a child, I was concerned my grey matter would be diminishing, and I used to joke that I would be 70 years of age and end up completely loopy cycling around the Southern Highlands with a stuffed pigeon on my head. Even as a teenager, I fell off a horse and got concussion (twice) and I remember being a little worried. I knocked my head against things, including walking quickly around a corner into a ‘bigger boy’, getting knocked to the ground and having concussion. It may have been a little more complex than that, yet the main theme was essentially that as an adult your neurons, or ‘grey matter’, gradually died off.Īlthough I was rarely ill as a child, I had several small head injuries. ![]() Growing up, I was taught in my science classes that the brain grew as you grew, that when you hit around 25 years of age your brain was ‘fully formed’, and after that it went downhill. THE BRAIN THAT CHANGES ITSELF: Stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science ![]()
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