Ischemic damage to the brain triggers substantial reorganization of spared areas and
pathways, which is associated with limited, spontaneous restoration of function. A better …

Background This is an updated version of the original Cochrane Review published in 2010,
Issue 9, and last updated in 2014, Issue 4. Non‐invasive brain stimulation techniques aim to …

It has been 30 years since the discovery that repeated electrical stimulation of neural
pathways can lead to long-term potentiation in hippocampal slices. With its relevance to …

Cognitive enhancement takes many and diverse forms. Various methods of cognitive
enhancement have implications for the near future. At the same time, these technologies …

Motor recovery after stroke is related to neural plasticity, which involves developing new
neuronal interconnections, acquiring new functions, and compensating for impairment …

In neurology, as in all branches of medicine, symptoms of disease and the resulting burden
of illness and disability are not simply the consequence of the injury, inflammation or …

Neural plasticity--the brain's ability to change in response to normal developmental
processes, experience, and injury--is a critically important phenomenon for both …

Visual imagery is used in a wide range of mental activities, ranging from memory to
reasoning, and also plays a role in perception proper. The contribution of early visual cortex …

What is Human Enhancement? Human enhancement has emerged in recent years as a
blossoming topic in applied ethics. With continuing advances in science and technology …

Cerebral plasticity, which is the dynamic potential of the brain to reorganize itself during
ontogeny, learning, or following damage, has been widely studied in the last decade, in …