Neuroplasticity: A Shrouded Self-Recovery

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54393/pjhs.v5i01.1287

PAKISTAN JOURNAL OF HEALTH SCIENCES

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Volume 5, Issue 1 (January 2024)

Neuroplasticity: A Shrouded Self-Recovery

Asif Naveed
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University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
dr.masifnaveed@gmail.com

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How to Cite: Naveed, M. A. (2024). Neuroplasticity: A Shrouded Self-Recovery. Pakistan Journal of Health Sciences, 5(01). https://doi.org/
10.54393/pjhs.v5i01.1287

The human brain is a replica of a well-integrated universe within which light eets in swathes and heralds the secrets of its
unprecedented steadfastness and coherence. The human universe, called brain has been designed capacious enough to
withhold the impacts of barter along with the adroitness of guiding the uid dynamics of majestic human creatures. It was
not until 1948 that Jerzy Konorski coined this neuro-physiological dexterity into the term 'neuroplasticity'. The word is the
true depiction of its functional mastery over making sophisticated humans adapt to any sort of internal or external change in
the environment, through sharing the intense impulses of response with the neurons in closer proximity. This commitment
to adaptation leads to either a renovated, recess, or re-establishment relay of neuron connections in brain, named synapses.
This mechanism of self-recovery has been recently incorporated into practical therapy, owing to the ush of discoveries,
enlightening both the people of science and laymen with its bene ts. Neuroplasticity has been applied in the models of
nervous degeneration, cognition, learning, and memory decline translating into abbergasting outcomes among patients of
Alzheimer, stroke, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, and aging deterioration [1]. The technique has also unwound its potencies
to psychologist and psychosocial activists that now recommend neuroplasticity-stimulating exercises to patients of
depression and anger issues.
A Question arises on how such a complete package of control is achieved by humans. Research shows and argues that it can
be attained in a myriad of ways, no one roadmap has yet been formulated. Certain proteins, molecular switches, high fat diets,
muscle vibrations, enforced habitual reinforcements, and conditional piquing of neurons' originator cells onset and drive the
plasticity of the neurons. A contemporary scienti c investigation on the effects of virtual reality exposure to rats concluded
that it ne-tuned the hippocampus region of the brain unveiled through 'eta' waves that were associated with storing memory
[2]. Debates are underway whether neuroplasticity is the facilitator of new cranial rewiring or simply an enhancer of existing
brain abilities.
Future implications of neuroplasticity include its manifestation in the guise of arti cial intelligence (AI). The success in
proliferation of AI has been counter-argued with the extent of its ability to interpret and respond to unexpected and untaught
stimuli. But the unearthing of systems such as SynapShot, a real time uorescent apparatus developed to visualize brain's
impulse connections, heralds a before long translation of neuroplastic codes into machine language [3]. To arrive at such
approaches the need of hour is to fully unlock and explore the mightiness of the plasticity horizons of the neurons, that
imitate the ideology of galaxies.
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[2] Safaryan K, Mehta MR. Enhanced hippocampal theta rhythmicity and emergence of eta oscillation in virtual reality.
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