Brain Plasticity

Durung development, the brain is highly plastic in that it has the capacity to be adapted by experiences, especially at the microscopic niveau.  iT is both plastic to internal events as well as to external events, which might be due to specific consequences of hormones, injury, faulty genes as well as drugs. When during critical periods of brain development, and when they are not normal, the development of the brain is also imperfect. These abnormalities might cause for instance developmental disorders or even schizophrenia (Kolb and Whishaw, 2006).