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I read somewhere that a new drug to treat hyperactivity was able to, in some people, make the brain "get open again"...
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Anything is possible. I started on a new medication as a diuretic. I've had back problems since I fell off a loading dock at age ~20. Always migrating to upper, middle or lower back at random. I noticed a week later that the back aches are gone.
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Some people say newborns don't recognize faces etc. Well, my son did; a sharp observer, tiny as he was. But all the power went to analyzing and sorting, none to social skills.
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It isn't linear, abilities are lost. Pattern matching for one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_recognition_(psychology)
No supporting link found, but I was defeated regularly in a computer game by one five-year-old.
Childhood amnesia for another.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia
I'd combine Fuller's assertion that an individual acquires half their total knowledge by the age of four, and Timothy Leary's concept of the four terrestrial brain circuits.