Impossible! That was my first response when I heard a story about a little girl who had her entire right hemisphere surgically removed. Her brain restored itself to complete functioning. How remarkable. But this is the new frontier of neuroscience, and it’s pushing our medical reality to new limits. “…the brain recognizes a need and through its own plasticity creates new pathways of neural connections.” We’re seeing more and more how the brain has capabilities beyond our wildest dreams. And such capacity, known in the field as neuroplasticity, allows the brain to reinvent itself. Simply put, the brain recognizes a…