Using Knowledge of Development to Promote Recovery of Function after Brain Damage
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- George F. Michel, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Knowledge of normal development of brain–behavior relations plays an important role in understanding how the plasticity of the nervous system can be used to promote recovery of function following brain damage. Aspects of the other articles in this issue are used in justification of the value of such developmental knowledge. Also, the development of amblyopia and its remediation in adulthood is discussed as a model for developing other techniques for ensuring recovery of function after stroke. Although the articles in this issue establish an excellent context for improving actual recovery of function (rather than compensation for deficits), much still needs to be discovered about how we can use developmental knowledge, along with knowledge of the plasticity of the nervous system, to improve remediation techniques.
Using Knowledge of Development to Promote Recovery of Function after Brain Damage
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Developmental Psychobiology, 54(3) 350–356
- Language: English
- Date: 2012
- Keywords
- recovery of function, brain plasticity, ethology, critical period, amblyopia