Functional recovery

Question 1

what is functional recovery?

Answer 1

the recovery of abilities and mental process that heave been compromised or lost as a result of brain injury or disease. this is acheived as a result of brain plasticity i.e. neural reorganisation and neural regeneration

Question 2

What is neural regeneration?

Answer 2

regrowth or repair of nervous tissues, cells or cell products to compensate for damage.

Question 3

what is neural reorganisation?

Answer 3

known as rewiring, it is the treansfer of functions to undamaged areas to allow functional recovery

Question 4

How does neural reorganisation occur?

Answer 4

can occur as a result of neuronal unmasking, axonal sprouting and recruitment of homologous series

Question 5

What is axonal sprouting?

Answer 5

the axons of surviving neurons grow new branches that make synapses in areas of the brain formerly supplied by the damaged neurons

Question 6

what is recruitment of homologous series?

Answer 6

brain behaviour becomes active in the equivalent part of the brain on the opposite side of the hemisphere which enables neural reorganization and functional recovery

Question 7

what is neuronal unmasking

Answer 7

synaptic connections exist anatomically, but their function is blocked. under normal circumstances