• Question: Can a brain grow back? So if a part of your brain gets removed in an operation, does it grow back? If so how?

    Asked by spacenut1982 to Christina, Colin, Jess, Samaneh, Steve on 22 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Jess Bean

      Jess Bean answered on 22 Jun 2013:


      A brain can’t grow back exactly, as in if you cut a chunk out new brain would not just grow back.
      What scientists do know though is that if a part of your brain is cut out, the neurons (brain cells that carry messages) that used to be there can be rearranged in the remaining tissue so that what that bit of brain used to do can still be done!

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