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The malleable brain : benefits and harm from plasticity of the brain / Aage R. Moller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Møller, Aage R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neuroplasticity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hauppauge N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book describes how the brain is malleable, which means that the way it works can be changed. Cochlear implants and rehabilitation after strokes and trauma are successful because of this ability. It also discusses two very different roles of neural plasticity, one that is beneficial and one that causes harm and diseases.
- Contents:
- Vital functions of the brain and the spinal cord
- Neural plasticity
- Beneficial neural plasticity
- Plasticity diseases
- Treatment of plasticity diseases
- Is neural plasticity purposeful and beneficial or not?.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-61324-059-7
- OCLC:
- 841167965
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