Neuroplasticity and Neurorehabilitation

• Main Author: Edward Taub (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; Central Nervous System; cortical reorganization; Neurorehabilitation; Rehabilitation; neuroplasticity
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In the history of neuroscience it had long been a virtually axiomatic belief that the mature mammalian nervous system was hardwired and fixed. This view goes back to the work of Louis Broca in the 1850s and has been perhaps most famously articulated by Ramon y Cajal. The immature nervous system was...