How our brain defends itself against Anxiety

How does our brain defend itself against the ravages brought by anxiety? By being plastic! Our brain can and does change through the course of our lifetime. This is known as neuroplasticity. We humans are organic creatures made of flesh and bone, nerves, tissues and neurons and synapses firing in our brains. The brain was once considered to be a static organ that did not change after we finished developing as babies, however, research in the last two decades has discovered that the brain is a changeable (plastic) organ that is always growing and changing in response to our own genes and even our experiences (Pinel 2018). Stress, anxiety and disease can affect our brain negatively, but this remarkable organ can heal itself and develop new pathways for those neurons and synapses to do their jobs.