Functional recovery

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What can unaffected areas of the brain due after physical injury?
Adapt and compensate for those areas damaged
What is the functional recovery that may occur after trauma an example of?
Plasticity
What is spontaneous recovery?
Functional recovery may occur quickly and then slow down
How is the brain able to rewire itself?
Forms new synaptic connections close to the area of damage
What are activated to enable functioning to continue according to Doidge?
Secondary neural pathways
Who tells us secondary neural pathways are activated to enable functioning to continue?
Doidge
What are the three structural changes that support functional recovery?
Axonal sprouting
Denervation supersensitivity
Recruitment of homologous areas
What is axonal sprouting?
The growth of new nerve endings which connect with other undamaged nerve cells to form new neuronal pathways
What is denervation supersensitivity?
Axons that do a similar job become aroused to a higher level to compensate for the lost ones
What is the negative consequence of denervation supersensitivity?
Oversensitivity to messages; pain
What does homologous mean?
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