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Neuropsychological or cognitive rehabilitation has undergone a considerable
theoretical and practical development as a specialised field of research and
clinical application in its own right. Its possibilities of intervention have
been considerably expanded after the abandonment of a wrong belief in the
immutability of the central nervous system and the growing evidence in favour of
the existence of a considerable degree of neuroplasticity even in the mature and
aged brain. Modulation of synaptic transmission and synaptogenesis, the staple
mechanism of neuroplasticity in development, maturation and learning, is also
assumed by most to underlie functional recovery in the damaged central nervous
system. In order to achieve a true scientific rationale for neurological and
neuropsychological rehabilitation, it will be necessary to fully understand the
actual overlaps and the actual differences between the mechanisms of repair and
reorganisation after brain damage and those of physiological development and
normal learning.

Langue : ANGLAIS