Cognitive and/or perceptual handicaps that develop from brain impairments can be modified by training; similarly, intensive training may restore some measure of walking ability after certain spinal cord injuries.


Rehabilitation and Retraining Can Help Recovery from Brain and Spinal Cord Injury

In the months following a brain injury, people often show conspicuous improvements in behavior, as the injury site stabilizes, unaffected tissue reorganizes, and compensation occurs. The relative extent of recovery from aphasia can be predicted from several factors. 

The Brain Regrows and Reorganizes Anatomically After Being Injured

- Concussion
- Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)
- Musculoskeletal Injuries
- Ankle Sprains
- Achilles Tendon Injuries
- Hip/Groin Injuries
- Thigh Injuries
- Foot Injuries
- Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears
- Upper extremity (arm, wrist, and hand) injuries

Common Sports Injuries

- The brain regrows and reorganizes anatomically after being injured
- Rehabilitation and retraining can help recovery from brain and spinal cord injury
- Common contact sport injuries

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- Brain asymmetry and lateralization of function
- Spatial Cognition
- Language disorders
- Models describing Left-hemisphere language system
- Brain mapping of language
- Verbal behavior
- Reading skills; acquiring and impairment
- Recovering language function

Topics in Language and Lateralization

Breedlove, S. & Watson, N. (2017). Behavioral neuroscience, eighth edition. Oxford University Press.

Behavioral Neuroscience 8th Edition

While originally it was thought that certain actions were completely done by one side of the brain over the other, it is now thought that each of the brain's hemispheres are specialized for certain functions and ways of working (lateralization). Although they may have these functions, both sides of the brain still work together to execute behaviors.

Brain Asymmetry and Lateralization of Function

Verbal Behavior

Models Describing Left-Hemisphere Language System

Brain Mapping of Language

The mental processes that deal with the spatial relationship among objects.

Spatial Cognition

Specialization of one cerebral hemisphere for a particular intellectual function

Cerebral Laterization

Recovering Language Function

- Brain damage may cause specific impairments in reading
- The effects of dyslexia on the brain

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