Patient Revives After 19 Years By Rewiring Brain

dylanduck writes "A study of the recovery of a man who spent 19 years in a minimally conscious state has revealed the likely cause of his regained consciousness - his brain rewired itself around the injured areas into totally novel structures. It suggests the human brain shows far greater potential for recovery and regeneration then ever suspected." From the article: "There were ... significant changes between scans taken just two months after the recovery, and the most recent, at 18 months. Some of the new pathways had receded again, while others seem to have strengthened and taken over as Wallis continued to improve."

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Re:Obligatory Emo Phillips

[gowen]

Not "used the thing", but "used to think".
Notice how the sentence makes grammatical sense that way.