Human Brain

So how do we learn and why does some of us learn things more easily than others. These are the questions that fascinate me. The brain research is one of the great frontiers in the understanding of human physiology and also in the consideration of what makes us who we are. what we know about brain is changing at breath taking pace  much of it we thought we knew and understood  about the brain turns out to be not true or incomplete. Now somebody’s misconceptions are more obvious to others for example we used to think that after childhood the brain didn’t or really could not change and it turns out that nothing could be farther from the truth. Another misconception about the brain is that you only use the parts of it at any given time and silent when you do nothing, well this is also untrue, it turns out even when you are at rest and thinking of nothing your brain is highly active. So it has been advances and technologies such as MRI that has allowed us to make