5 brain plasticity and brain injury Flashcards
1
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Factors influencing brain plasticity
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- Experience-expectant and experience-dependent plasticity
- Neuroplasticity in response to brain injury
- Types of change
2
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Experience-expectant and experience-dependent plasticity
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3
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Neuroplasticity in response to brain injury
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4
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Types of change
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Generation of new networks
Reassignment of function
Neurogenesis
5
Q
Impact of an acquired brain injury
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6
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Traumatic brain injury
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Biological, psychological and social changes due to frontal lobe injury
7
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Aphasia
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Broca’s aphasia
Wernicke’s aphasia
8
Q
Stroke
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Ischaemic
Haemorrhagic
9
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Neurological disorders
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- Epilepsy
10
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Epilepsy
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Focal onset
Generalised onset
Unknown onset
11
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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)
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