plasticity a03 complex

• Plasticity is dependent on other factors affecting it

  1. Age differences - elbert suggested its much greater in children

  Neural reorganisation can happen with adults but requires intense retraining

  Children have twice as many synaptic connections than adults

  2. Educational attainment - schenieder patients with equivalent of a college education are seven times for likely to be injury free one year after a trauma that those hwo didn't finish high school
• Support for stem cells in recovery

  1. Rats- traumatic brain injury

  2. Two groups

  3. Solution with no stem cells or stem cells

  4.rats showed... clear development of neural like cells in the area of injury as well as a solid stream of stem cells migrating to the brain’s site of injury

  Able to scan before

  Causal relationship between stem cells and brain recovery 
• MRI showed Posterior hippocampus (core region involved in sn) was largely greater in taxi drivers

  Extensive experience of spatial navigation changed their brains

  Positive correlation between hippo volume and amount of time as a taxi driver

  Could this be already existing and why they were successful taxi drivers (can’t scan before)