Plasticity and FRAT
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- Created on: 04-12-22 11:22
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- Plasticity and FRAT
- Brain plasticity
- The brain can change throughout life
- This is achievable through synaptic pruning
- Synaptic pruning is when rarely-used connections are deleted, and frequently used connections are strengthened
- This is achievable through synaptic pruning
- Maguire et al.
- Positive correlation between time as a taxi driver, and size of hippocampus
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- May be a life-long ability
- Weaknesses
- Plasticity can have negative behavioural consequences
- Strengths
- The brain can change throughout life
- Process of functional recovery after trauma
- Axonal sprouting
- New nerve endings connect with other undamaged nerve cells to form new pathways
- Denervation supersensitivity
- Axons that do a similar job work at a higher level to compensate for the damaged ones
- Recruitment of homologous areas
- The other hemisphere takes on tasks
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- Real world application for neurorehabilitation
- Weaknesses
- Level of education may influence recovery rates
- Strengths
- Axonal sprouting
- Brain plasticity
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