Recovery of Function in Rats

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Functional recovery has been studied extensively in rats in order to display its applicability to humans. In rats, functional recovery has been observed to extreme levels, with rats learning behaviors that had been previously lost. In rats with brain lesions, significant levels of recovery have been noticed, with an increase in cortical tissue showing this achievement. This paper demonstrates, through various reviews of accredited authors, how functional recovery is possible and to what achievable level it is feasible.

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"When Hebbian learning is applied to research in the field of neural functional recovery, the synapses of injured neurons, and their associated neurons become highly dynamic. In regard to brain plasticity, if a serious shock (injury) to the brain causes an impairment of function, there is a possibility that other neurons and nerve tissue will be able to compensate for the function. This phenomenon is related to the reorganization of the brain primarily in infants, hinting that an adult and infant of a particular species have different brain organization (Kolb et al., 1999)."

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