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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: How does neuroplasticity work in relation to cognitive feedback - in other words does negative thinking actually cause physical changes in the brain ?
gpt
Everything causes changes to our brain. You just reading this comment causes chemical changes in your brain.
100 billion brain cells...and the neural connections in the brain may be between 100 trillion to 1000 trillion..so yeah everything we experience changes our brain that little bit.
Honestly this is still a relatively little understood topic even with the advances made so far.