What can be described by 'rarely used connections are deleted and frequently used connections are strengthened?
synaptic pruning
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Who did research on taxi drivers?
Maguire
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What area of the taxi drivers brain had more grey matter?
Posterior hippocampus
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Who did research on medical students?
Draginski
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How many months before and after the medical students final exam were their brains scanned?
three
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What are of the medical students brain had more grey matter?
posterior hippocampus
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What structural changes in functional recovery cna be defined by ' growth of new nerve endingd which connect with other undamaged cells to form new neuronal pathways'?
Axonal sprouting
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What structural change in functional recovery cna be defined by ' areas on the opposite side of the brain perform specific tasks'?
recruitment of homologous areas
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What structural change in functional recovery involves blood vessels?
Reformation of blood vessels
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What practical application does plasticity and functional recovery have?
Neurorehabilitation
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Who found potential negative consequences of neural plasticity (drugs)?
Medina
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Who found potential negative consequences in neural plasticity in amputees?
Ramachandran and Hirstein
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What syndrome does amputees typically develop (60-80% of cases)?
Phantom limb syndrome
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Who did the research into age an dplasticity (golf)?
Bezzola
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Who found support for neural plasticity in animals?
Hubel and wiesel
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What animal was used in the supporting evidenc of neural plasticity?
Kittens
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Who did research on taxi drivers?
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Maguire
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