[WEB SITE] The Plasticity of the Brain: Guiding the Damaged Brain to Recover From Injury and the Healthy Brain to Improve Itself

…However, we developed a treatment at UAB termed CI therapy, or constraint-induced movement therapy, that can harness the capacity of the adult brain for neuroplastic change and produce large improvements in lost movement and speech many years after the damage that produced it. Moreover, the neuroplastic changes and large improvements in function were not less for older persons than for teenagers. We have applied CI therapy successfully to patients who had a stroke 50 years earlier, and we often work in our clinic with patients in their 80s and 90s…

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