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FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY - Coggle Diagram
FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY
2 Gender
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examined 325 patients with brain trauma for their responsiveness to cognitive skills following rehabilitation
women recover better from brain injury as their function is not as lateralised - females show more bilateral patterns
women performed significantly better than men on tests of attention/working memory and language, whereas men outperformed females in visual analytical skills
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3 Education
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patients with the equivalent of a college education were 7x more likely to make a full recovery than people who did not finish school
the researchers argue that more educated people make more effective use of their brains, which strengthens them
neuronal unmasking
under normal conditions these synapses may be ineffective because the rate of neural input to them is too low for them to be activated
however, increasing the rate of input, can open these dormant synapses
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this opens connections to brain regions that are not normally activated, creating a lateral spread of activation, which, in time, gives way to the development of new structures
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Functional recovery
the brain learns to compensate for function. the brain can be taught to learn how to use the other working faculties in the brain to take over the functions that were lost
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the recovery of abilites and mental processes that have been compromised as a result of brain injury or disease
axon sprouting
in some cases, adjacent axons will sprout extra connections to the neuron, replacing those connections that have been destroyed
this helps to replace functions, but only if the damaged axon and the compensatory axons do a similar job
when an axon is damaged, its connection with a neuron is lost