Chapter 6 Brain plasticity and functional losses in the aged: scientific bases for a novel intervention

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 157, Issue , 2006, Pages 81-109

  Mahncke, Henry W ^b   Bronstone, Amy ^b   Merzenich, Michael M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Posit Science Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

brain plasticity; cognitive rehabilitation; computer based training

Indexed keywords

CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; DONEPEZIL;

AFFECT; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CELL FUNCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRUG COST; DYSLEXIA; DYSTONIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXERCISE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; OVEREXERTION; PARKINSONISM; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPEECH THERAPY; TRAINING; UPREGULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; AGED; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LANGUAGE; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 33749658176     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(06)57006-2     Document Type: Review

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