A Gemini Award-nominated Canadian documentary, investigates new research from the frontiers of neuroscience that is changing our fundamental understanding of what the human brain can do. Can a blind man learn to “see” with his tongue? Can a woman missing half of her brain become a successful Paralympic swimmer? If these seem like unusual questions, the answers are even more surprising.
Until recently, medical science assumed the brain was incapable of changing or adapting to damage caused by injury or disease. Neuroscientists, however, have
discovered that the brain in fact has the ability to rewire, regenerate and heal itself – a trait referred to as “plasticity.”