The Paradoxical Brain
Language: English
Pages: 488
ISBN: 0521115574
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The Paradoxical Brain focuses on the phenomenon whereby damage to the brain can actually result in enhancement of function, questioning the traditional belief that lesions or other negative effects on the brain will result in loss of function. The book covers a wide range of topics by leading researchers, including: • Superior performance after brain lesions or sensory loss • Return to normal function after a second brain lesion in neurological conditions • Paradoxical phenomena associated with human development • Examples where having one disease appears to prevent the occurrence of another disease • Situations where drugs with adverse effects on brain functioning may have beneficial effects in certain situations A better understanding of these interactions will inform new rehabilitation approaches and the implementation of new therapeutic strategies. It will be of interest to those working at the interface of brain and behaviour, including neuropsychologists, neurologists, psychiatrists and neuroscientists.
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To me in my particular neurosciences setting were only made possible by the dedicated, outstanding endeavours over the years of a number of key individuals in Cambridge, in particular Alastair Compston and John Pickard. It is also impossible to produce a book of this type without having good computing support at hand, and I am grateful to Simon Jones and Tulasi Marrapu for providing this support. My assistant, Kayleigh Kew, helped in a variety of ways, too many to mention. I also thank the other.
2: Paradoxical effects of sensory loss Figure 2.4 TOP: Enlarged cortical representation of the Braille-reading finger following a year of Braille training. BOTTOM: Changes in cortical representation appear to be characterized by two periods: an initial, transient phase (approximately 6 months) followed by a more stable period. Initially, rapid and prominent enlargement of cortical representation occurs, reflecting the recruitment of unmasked connections. Subsequently, cortical representation.
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Of findings from studies of speech, face and music perception and shows that perceptual tuning is so broad at first that it allows young infants to respond to native as well as non-native perceptual attributes. As development proceeds, and as infants are selectively exposed to native perceptual attributes, this tuning narrows in scope, leaving older infants with a perceptual insensitivity to non-native attributes. We first describe this unisensory evidence and then move on to the most recent.