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How do other senses go about adapting and becoming stronger when one sense is lost

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The brain adapts to the loss by giving itself a makeover. If one sense is lost, the areas of the brain normally devoted to handling that sensory information do not go unused — they get rewired and put to work processing other senses.
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The brain adapts to the loss by giving itself a makeover.

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If one sense is lost, the areas of the brain normally devoted to handling that sensory information do not go unused — they get rewired and put to work processing other senses.

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