Brain Plasticity and Functional Recovery - Biological Psychology [AQA ALevel]

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Created for the requirements of AQA A level psychology. However, information should be useful for students of other psychology courses.

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Concepts covered: Brain plasticity, Functional recovery, Functional re-organisation, Axonal sprouting, Neural regeneration, synaptic pruning, denervation super sensitivity, factors affecting recovery, constraint induced therapy (CIT).

Evaluative studies discussed:

Maguire, et al. (2000) Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC18253/

Danelli, et al. (2013) Is a lone right hemisphere enough? Neurolinguistic architecture in a case with a very early left hemispherectomy.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22519521

Mathias (2015) Contribution of brain or biological reserve and cognitive or neural reserve to outcome after TBI: A meta-analysis

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26054792

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