Plasticity & Functional Recovery

Question 1

What is the meaning of plasticity?

Answer 1

. Brains tendency to change or adapt because of the experience of learning

Question 2

What is maguire et als study about

Answer 2

. 16 male London taxi drivers and 50 non male taxi drivers
. Using MRI to show amount of grey matter
. Found that taxi drivers had larger hippocampus to control group, control group spending time with taxi driver also increased this

Question 3

Advantages of this study?

Answer 3

. Highly empirical as it uses MRI

Question 4

Limitations of this study

Answer 4

. Low population validity (
only 16)
. Evidence is based using correlations

Question 5

Generally advantages of plasticity in the brain?

Answer 5

. Evidence to support that plasticity does not decline with age (Ladina)

Question 6

General disadvantage of plasticity?

Answer 6

. Negative plasticity (phantom limb)

Question 7

What is functional brain recovery?

Answer 7

Form of plasticity, following damage through trauma the brain can redistribute and transfer function from a undamaged area to a damaged area

Question 8

What happens to the brain during functional recovery

Answer 8

. Axon spouting
. Enervation super sensitivity
. Recruitment of similar areas on opposite side of brain

Question 9

What happens in danellis key study

Answer 9

.EB was operated on at the stage of 2 1/2 removing large tumor from left hemisphere
. All linguistic ability gone, but started rehabilitation
. At age 5 improvement found, when tested again at 17 found right hemisphere compensated and he was functioning well

Question 10

Strengths of danelli

Answer 10

. Practical application of functional recovery
. Shows info about recovery and age

Question 11

Limitation of danelli

Answer 11

. Educational attainment influenced how well the brain functions after injury