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• The idea of brain plasticity is supported by Maguire et al. They used MRI to measure the grey matter in taxi drivers and non taxi drivers brains. They found a positive correlation between the size of their posterior hippocampus, and how long they had worked as a taxi driver.
• There is also research support for functional recovery after trauma. For example rats with traumatic brain injury were either given transplants of stem cells into their brains or a solution containing no stem cells. Those given the transplants developed more neuron like cells in the area of injury.
• However, research suggests that functional recovery depends on a personal recovery depends on a person's age. For example., Huttenlocher found that adults may need to develop compensatory behavioural strategies to deal with cognitive deficit (e.g writing lists), as functional recovery appears to reduce with age