But the more encouraging point is that the brain is plastic.

The great news is that the brain is plastic: it can develop throughout life.

And they’ve knocked a wall down so the drawing room and the living room have become one big modern plastic kind of room.

This kind of rewiring is an example of neuroplasticity, the adult brain’s ability to change and remold itself.

She just needs a few fashion pointers, a brush-up on high-school-girl slang and the dubious advice to pretend to be awful at math, and soon she's as Plastic as they come.