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For the first year, Fondazione Zoé has proposed a series of initiatives that have become part of the over 500 events of Brain Awareness Week, held throughout the country from March 12 to 18. Among these initiatives, the meeting with Maria Luisa Gorno Tempini, Neurology Department University of California San Francisco. The brain is a plastic organ capable of reorganizing itself and learning in response to external stimuli. This principle of human neuroscience is true at all ages of life. However, there are critical periods in which the individual's habits and the emotional, cognitive and social environment in which he or she acts are fundamental to protecting the learning and adaptation abilities that are typical of human beings.