Neuroscience—the science of understanding the brain and how it works—is developing and changing the way we treat addiction.
We once thought that nerves did not regenerate, that once a person suffered some sort of brain damage there was nothing that could be done to regain the lost brain function. New research has found that while some brain damage is profound, the brain does have the ability to recover some function on its own; it is malleable in ways we previously could not imagine. This ability of the brain to heal itself is called neuroplasticity.