Experience: A double-edged sword for restorative neural plasticity after brain damage

Future Neurology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 189-198

  Allred, Rachel P ^a   Jones, Theresa A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity dependent plasticity; Animal models; Behavioral compensation; Ischemia; Motor skill learning; Neurorehabiltation; Regeneration; Synaptogenesis; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT THERAPY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELF CARE; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 40749129291     PISSN: 14796708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/14796708.3.2.189     Document Type: Review

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