15/10/2025
All human beings do not have the same brain…
Yeah.
In anatomy and physiology, we have a concept we refer to as “Neuroplasticity.”
It refers to the brain’s ability to adapt to the activity of the user. This means that even on a physical assessment of your brain, one may be able to tell the part you use or develop the most.
(Even if you don’t fully understand the anatomy, just keep reading you’ll get the gist at the end).
As you already know, there are different parts that make up what we call the brain. Among them are the Cerebellum, Cerebral cortex (the largest part of the brain), and the Brainstem (I hope you’re still following).
According to their basic functions, we have the:
1. Cerebral cortex (which contains the different lobes of the brain) - Complex or critical thinking, short-term memory, sensory processing.
2. Cerebellum - Movement and coordination, among others.
3. Brainstem - Vital life-sustaining functions (breathing, maintaining heart rate, and the urge to eat or even have s*x), and certain aspects of long-term memory.
Stay with me, please.
Research by Eleanor Maguire of University College London showed that London taxi drivers have more grey matter in their hippocampi (singular: hippocampus) than others of similar age, intelligence, and status who aren’t taxi drivers.
What this means is that every brain adapts by developing the areas that the user frequently engages.
In the same way, mathematicians or people with high levels of creative and critical thinking tend to have their frontal lobes more developed than those who don’t.
Now that you know this, here’s the point:
Your brain will only respond to the demands you place on it, it responds to you and to your environment.
You now have the choice to either feed it and train it… or sit back and watch it become malnourished and unused to death.
The brain is like a muscle, it can be trained, to think solutions, to think creativity, to think positivity.
Don't be left out please, exercise your brain muscles in the right gym.
I am Nurse Zakariya Jibrin Banga and I thank God for giving me a brain to train. Knowing this means knowing my potentials, knowing my strength and my weaknesses.
I hope this is worth your time.
If you find this helpful, consider sharing it with others until we all understand that the brain will always respond to the demands we place on it.
