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==Neuroscience==
==Neuroscience==
:For decades, the prevailing dogma in neuroscience was that the adult human brain is essentially immutable, hardwired, fixed in form and function, so that by the time we reach adulthood we are pretty much stuck with what we have. [http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1580438,00.html#ixzz2dHoDF56u Time magazine]
:Before 1960, the brain was considered by scientists to be immutable, subject only to genetic control.<ref> [http://education.jhu.edu/PD/newhorizons/Neurosciences/articles/Response%20of%20the%20Brain%20to%20Enrichment/ Response of the Brain to Enrichment] - Marian Cleeves Diamond, Johns Hopkins School of Education</ref>
:For decades, the prevailing dogma in neuroscience was that the adult human brain is essentially immutable, hardwired, fixed in form and function, so that by the time we reach adulthood we are pretty much stuck with what we have.<ref> [http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1580438,00.html#ixzz2dHoDF56u Time magazine]</ref>
==Notes==
==Notes==