brain plasticity and functional recovery

As we age, rarely used connections are deleted and frequently used connections are strengthened- a process known as synaptic ....

• connections

• progression

• pruning

• preventing

when do we make the most synaptic connections?

• Infancy

• Teenage years

• adulthood

• old age

Maguire's research suggests that London Cabbies have...

• increased volume of grey matter in posterior hippocampus

• decreased volume of grey matter in posterior hippocampus

Healthy brain areas may take over the functions of those areas that are damaged, destroyed or even missing.

• true

• false

The brain is able to rewire and reorganise itself by forming ____________ close to the area of damage

• synaptic prunes

• synpatic connections

• synaptic vesicle

• axons

plasticity __________ with age

• increases

• reduces

Phantom limb pain is a _______ of functional recovery

• strength

• weakness

animal studies have been found to __________ functional recovery.

• contradict

• support