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Adaptive Neuroplasticity in Brain Injury Recovery: Strategies and Insights

This review addresses the relationship between neuroplasticity and recovery from brain damage. Neuroplasticity's ability to adapt becomes crucial since brain injuries frequently result in severe impairments. We begin by describing the fundamentals of neuroplasticity and how it relates to rehabi...

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Autores principales: Zotey, Vaishnavi, Andhale, Amol, Shegekar, Tejas, Juganavar, Anup
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10598326/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37885532
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.45873
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Andhale, Amol
Shegekar, Tejas
Juganavar, Anup
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description This review addresses the relationship between neuroplasticity and recovery from brain damage. Neuroplasticity's ability to adapt becomes crucial since brain injuries frequently result in severe impairments. We begin by describing the fundamentals of neuroplasticity and how it relates to rehabilitation. Examining different forms of brain injuries and their neurological effects highlights the complex difficulties in rehabilitation. By revealing cellular processes, we shed light on synaptic adaptability following damage. Our study of synaptic plasticity digs into axonal sprouting, dendritic remodeling, and the balance of long-term potentiation. These processes depict neural resilience amid change. Then, after damage, we investigate immediate and slow neuroplastic alterations, separating reorganizations that are adaptive from those that are maladaptive. As we go on to rehabilitation, we evaluate techniques that use neuroplasticity's potential. These methods take advantage of the brain's plasticity for healing, from virtual reality and brain-computer interfaces to constraint-induced movement therapy. Ethics and individualized neurorehabilitation are explored. We scrutinize the promise of combination therapy and the difficulties in putting new knowledge into clinical practice. In conclusion, this analysis highlights neuroplasticity's critical role in brain injury recovery, providing sophisticated approaches to improve life after damage.
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spelling pubmed-105983262023-10-26 Adaptive Neuroplasticity in Brain Injury Recovery: Strategies and Insights Zotey, Vaishnavi Andhale, Amol Shegekar, Tejas Juganavar, Anup Cureus Neurology This review addresses the relationship between neuroplasticity and recovery from brain damage. Neuroplasticity's ability to adapt becomes crucial since brain injuries frequently result in severe impairments. We begin by describing the fundamentals of neuroplasticity and how it relates to rehabilitation. Examining different forms of brain injuries and their neurological effects highlights the complex difficulties in rehabilitation. By revealing cellular processes, we shed light on synaptic adaptability following damage. Our study of synaptic plasticity digs into axonal sprouting, dendritic remodeling, and the balance of long-term potentiation. These processes depict neural resilience amid change. Then, after damage, we investigate immediate and slow neuroplastic alterations, separating reorganizations that are adaptive from those that are maladaptive. As we go on to rehabilitation, we evaluate techniques that use neuroplasticity's potential. These methods take advantage of the brain's plasticity for healing, from virtual reality and brain-computer interfaces to constraint-induced movement therapy. Ethics and individualized neurorehabilitation are explored. We scrutinize the promise of combination therapy and the difficulties in putting new knowledge into clinical practice. In conclusion, this analysis highlights neuroplasticity's critical role in brain injury recovery, providing sophisticated approaches to improve life after damage. Cureus 2023-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10598326/ /pubmed/37885532 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.45873 Text en Copyright © 2023, Zotey et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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