Evaluation Of Plasticity Flashcards
What tends to slow down in a few weeks meaning what?
Spontaneous recovery meaning further physical therapy will be needed
What are some examples of further physical therapy?
Movement therapy and electrical stimulation of the brain in counter the deficits in motor and cognitive functioning
What can the brains ability to revive itself sometimes have?
Maladaptive behavioural consequences
What has prolonged drug use been shown to result in?
Poorer cognitive functioning and risk of possible dementia in later life
What have 60%-80% of amputees been known to develop?
Phantom limb syndrome - continued sensations of a missing limb
What are phantom limb sensations like?
Unpleasant and painful and are thought to be due to cortical reorganisation in the somatosensory cortex that occur after limb loss
What can the brain do more during childhood?
Able to reorganise itself more as it is constantly adapting to new experiences
What did Bezzola et al 2012 demonstrate?
How 40 hours of golf training produced changes in the neural representation of movement in participants ages 40-60
Using FMRI scanners what have researchers observed?(golfers)
Motor cortex activity in novice golfers compared to the control group suggesting more efficient neural representations after training
What did Hubel and Wiesel 1963 do?(animal studies)
Sewed one eye of a kitten shut and analysed the brains cortical responses
What did Hubel and Wiesel 1963 find?
The area of the visual cortex associated with the shut eye was not ideal but continued to process information from the open eye
What does evidence suggest about educational attainment?
How well the brain functionally adapts after injury
What did Schneider eat al 2014 discover?
The more time a brain injury patient had spent in education the greater their chances of being disability free were
What have a number of neuroscientific studies examined?
The effects of prolonged periods of mediation on the brain
Study of Gabby Gifford?
- was a politician
- survived an assassination attempt
- shot in the head
- placed in a coma and made progress
- able to walk and regain control
- placed in top 5% of those who recovered from brain injury
