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Until very recently, We believed that the adult brain couldn't change. "Our brain circuits were born and finalized in childhood" Now we've discovered that the brain is plastic. meaning changeable, but not all change is good... That changing brain can actually do us harm. Obsessive compulsive Disorder (OCD), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and even schizophrenia.

But the mind can harness the damaged brains plasticity to the change itself. And now we are finding new treatments for mental deceases and disorders once thought incurable.