Neurobiological and Psychological Aspects of Brain Recovery
The novelty of this book's approach lies in addressing the impact of neurobiological factors as well as psychological influences on brain recovery. There is growing evidence that emotional, motivational, and cognitive factors along with personality traits
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Laura Petrosini Editor
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Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience Series editor Mario Manto, Unité d’Etude du Mouvement (UEM), FNRS, Neurologie ULB-Erasme, Bruxelles, Belgium
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/7678
Laura Petrosini Editor
Neurobiological and Psychological Aspects of Brain Recovery
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Editor Laura Petrosini Department of Psychology Sapienza University of Rome Rome Italy
Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience ISBN 978-3-319-52065-0 ISBN 978-3-319-52067-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-52067-4
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Preface
If this book had been written 30 or 40 years ago, it could have been titled “Brain recovery? Could it occur?” In fact, the concept that each area of the brain has a rigid network of connections and then a fixed and immutable function was too strongly rooted to accept an alternative idea that an adult brain could modify itself in response to an injury. We used to think that the brain, once damaged, could not repair itself. If this book had been written 10 years ago, it could have been titled “Neurobiological Aspects of Brain Recovery.” In fact, breakthroughs in neuroscience have undoubtedly shown that though individual neurons might be damaged beyond repair, the brain exploits its neuroplasticity properties and tries to repair itself with a powerful efficiency. An ever increasing number of studies have supported the notion that neuronal fibers grow and form new terminals in response to nearby damage and
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