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Defining Plasticity and Its Factors

Plasticity refers to the brain's ability to change and reorganize itself in response to experience or injury. There are four forms of intercellular synaptic changes that underlie plasticity: long-term potentiation, long-term depression, homeostatic plasticity, and spike-timing dependent plasticity. Factors that influence recovery via plasticity include age, extent of injury, enriched environment, and neurorehabilitation/therapy.

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Defining Plasticity and Its Factors

Plasticity refers to the brain's ability to change and reorganize itself in response to experience or injury. There are four forms of intercellular synaptic changes that underlie plasticity: long-term potentiation, long-term depression, homeostatic plasticity, and spike-timing dependent plasticity. Factors that influence recovery via plasticity include age, extent of injury, enriched environment, and neurorehabilitation/therapy.

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Plasticity

Short answer 1) define plasticity, elaborate in the form of cortical mapping

2) what are the four forms of intercellular synaptic changes

3) List the factors that influence recovery via plasticity, providing examples or reasoning for each.

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