The brain is a very flexible thing of meat, even destroyed or damaged partways can recover, by shifting in adjunct areas. There are cases, were people destroye

The brain is a very flexible thing of meat, even destroyed or damaged partways can recover, by shifting in adjunct areas. There are cases, were people destroyed the centers for speech with drinking and recovered the ability by shifting it into other areas. So to heal, one needs to rekindle the obsession and basically keep the request for the functionality constantly open. It is hard though, amounting to basically retrain a area of your brain for a different functionality. One addition. As doctor, one gets a very good view of the finiteness of human life. This "grown up" perspective, is then expected from patients, who instead expect a miracle head electrician that can fix everything in an instant up to/not yet included neural death. We all can end, any day. In your sleep, one stroke and its over. Such is the world. Carpe Diem, Memento Mori.