Training brain functions - Case Study

What is neuroplasticity?

The ability of the nervous system to respond to external and internal stimulations and to change its activity based on these changes. By responding to these stimuli it is meant to reorganize its structure of individual centers and their functional interconnections. Physiologically, these plastic changes can be observed during the actual development of the nervous system, during trauma, during the process of sensorimotor learning, and normally during the aging process of life. Due to neuroplasticity, humans have the ability to learn, to evaluate internal and external stimuli based on previous experiences. It can be concluded that neuroplasticity plays a major role in the actual development and physiological functioning of the nervous system.

There are many types of neuroplasticity. In rehabilitation we are most interested in adaptive and reparative plasticity.