Abstract

The field of medicine was under the impression for a considerable amount of time that the brain was "hard-wired" with predetermined neural circuits, and that it remained unchanged in its structure and function We now understand that throughout a person's lifetime, the brain is constantly making adjustments and reorganizing itself through generating new neuronal connections. It is now common knowledge that the brain is intrinsically capable of altering in response to trauma, which makes it possible for at least some forms of behavioral compensation to take place.

Keywords

• neuronal connections,
• intrinsically capable,
• behavioral compensation

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