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Brain plasticity is also known as neuroplasticity. It is the ability of the brain to modify itself by forming neural connections.
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The ability of solid rock to flow is called?
plasticity
Why do scientist believe it is easier for young children to relearn functions that were lost due to brain damage than it is for older people who may have suffered to brain damage due to stroke?
Brain plasticity, also called neuroplasticity, cortical plasticity and cortical re-mapping, is a term used to describe the way the brain organizes itself in response to experience. More specifically, "neuro" stands for neuron, the nerve cells in our brains and nervous centers, and "plasticity" for changeable or malleable. Since scientists began to study the brain, the idea was fairly set in stone that it was hardwired to respond in certain ways, and much like a computer, when one drive failed, that drive and all of it's information was gone for good. The knowledge (read synaptic connections) contained in that portion of the brain would be wiped out if damaged, to never be regained. Looking back now, it seems surprising that people who could easily grasp that the brain grows both in physical size and knowledge from childhood to adulthood, would assume that such an amazing organ was as unchanging as a machine. When scientists in the late 60s and early 70s began to discover that the brain was able to change what parts it used for different activities, switching over to other areas as the previously used portions stopped working or were utilized for different functions, the idea of brain plasticity was born. Now decades of research have given credence to the idea that the brain changes in reaction to new situations or in counterbalance to brain injury. Thinking, learning and even acting change not only the brain's organization but its actual physical structure. Called "maps", the way the sensory system in the brain is organized changes with stimulus, often moving from one part of the brain to the other. Picture a map overlaying the brain, then move it from one area to another and you have an idea of how it works. No longer are we limited by the idea of a never changing mind… we can now work on various aspects that are poorly formed or badly damaged with the hope of creating the necessary connections in some other part of the brain - a part capable of the needed responses.
The ability to recognize faces with the right hemisphere but not with the left hemisphere best illustrates?
plasticity
Describe types of brain with diagram?
a diagram of the brain
What is the Definition of wedge?
the definition of wedge is a wegde in a abject
When is brain plasticity at its peak?
Brain plasticity is at its peak in infancy. An infant's brain is a brain that is still capable of adjustment. The same cannot be said of an adult brain.
Does a damaged brain show plasticity?
A damaged brain shows some measure of plasticity, and it has the ability to rewire itself.
WHAT IS The capacity of one brain area to take over the functions of another damaged brain?
yes they can, it happened to my brother. he had brain damage and now he is nearly normal.
For which group is brain plasticity the greatest?
adults
The ability of the brain to be modified is called?
Plasticity.
The benefits of brain plasticity are most clearly demonstrated in?
The benefits of brain plasticity are most clearly demonstrated in children who have had a cerebral hemisphere surgically removed.
Examples of plasticity in the brain?
Brain plasticity is the ability for an area of the brain (specifically in the cerebral cortex) to compensate for another area of the brain when there is brain damage. The four lobes (occipital, temporal, frontal, and parietal) are not pre-wired to commit itself to any specific function, but it starts to "commit" to certain functions after birth.
What is it called when the brain suffers an and injury but then adapts?
plasticity
When does the human brain show most plasticity?
Early adulthood
What is the ability of the brain to wire itself as a person repeats thoughts or actions?
brain plasticity, or neuroplasticity
The capacity of one brain area to take over the functions of another damaged brain area is known as brain?
Neuroplasticity or brain plasticity refers to the way that changes in neural pathways and synapses allow one part of the brain to "take over" damaged areas of the brain. It also refers to the brain's general ability to change as we age for both better and worse.
What has the author Luis Miguel Garcia-Segura written?
Luis Miguel Garcia-Segura has written: 'Hormones and brain plasticity' -- subject(s): Physiology, Brain, Aging, Neuroendocrinology, Growth & development, Neuronal Plasticity, Hormones, Neuroplasticity
