Blog 5 What is the significance of brain plasticity? How does the mapping of the brain explain various fetishes?

Brain plasticity allows the brain to compensate for the pieces lost in the brain. For example, losing an arm would can cause phantom limb syndrome which causes the person to feel as if he had not lost the arm. However the person feels the pain of losing the arm. One way to treat of the syndrome is with psychological therapy. Phantom limb syndrome is sometimes caused by losing a body part. The body does not realize that the body part is missing though. Brain plasticity also causes the brain to compensate in more ways such as losing a part of your frontal lobe, changing one's personality.