Amber Minogue

How did they discover this?

So what impact could this have?

So is there any hope?

Do our brains really tell the whole story about us?

Thanks for asking.

You know how sometimes you might indulge in a bit too much junk food, or maybe the kids aren't acing their tests, or perhaps you're navigating the single life.

Hold up, before you start to worry, there's a seemingly scientific explanation for all of it, and it points to one place, our brains.

Neuroscience has become the go-to for decoding life's issues, spanning medicine, economics, politics and education.

But hold your horses, some experts are raising the red flag on neuromania, the tendency to oversimplify eye behaviours down to just brain activity.

What's the deal with neuroscience?

It's all about the science of our central and peripheral nervous systems.

In other words, the nerves, brain and spinal cord.

It's a relatively recent field of study which emerged in the United States in the 1960s and became popular in the 1980s, thanks to advances in terms of imaging and mapping of brain activity.

Through MRI scans, neuroscientists determined that the brain is divided into zones which activate according to actions or emotions.

They also talk about neuroplasticity or the brain's ability to remodel itself when we develop new skills or lose a sense.

But that's not the whole story.

What else is there to know?

The brain isn't just a collection of zones.

It's more like a complex web.

And neuroplasticity is less about total transformation and more about fine-tuning what's already there.