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Neuroplasticity explained by broad-scale networks and modularity?
Graeme Martin,Celia Greenway +1 more
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The human brain is a formidably complex network, the seat of cognition and consciousness and many other remarkable features, including the capacities of growth, self-organisation, reorganisation and the ability to recover from significant damage.Abstract:
The human brain is a formidably complex network, the seat of cognition and consciousness and many other remarkable features, including the capacities of growth, self-organisation, reorganisation and the ability to recover from significant damage. This combined dynamic capability is known as plasticity. Considerable neuro-reorganisation is a feature of the brain commonly thought to be restricted to childhood (the Kennard Principle); however, it is known to be a feature of adult brains as well. This paper provides a brief history of early theory and research, still valid today, on brain or neuroplasticity before discussing how current network theory and new brain mapping research on modularity can be synthesised to provide insight into this adaptive function from structure.read more
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