Brain Plasticity and Functional Recovery - Biological Psychology [AQA ALevel]

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This video includes: Brain plasticity, Functional recovery, Functional re-organisation, Axonal sprouting, Neural regeneration, synaptic pruning, denervation super sensitivity, factors affecting recovery, constraint induced therapy (CIT).

Evaluative studies discussed:

Maguire, et al. (2000) Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers

Danelli, et al. (2013) Is a lone right hemisphere enough? Neurolinguistic architecture in a case with a very early left hemispherectomy.

Mathias (2015) Contribution of brain or biological reserve and cognitive or neural reserve to outcome after TBI: A meta-analysis

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[DestinyBatesa]

think I've found the a level psychology equivalent to freesciencelessons - this made so much sense, thanks so much !

[ellen.may]

thanks so much for your video, got my exam tomorrow and im praying 😭

[abbiefilms]

the gage study is so interesting- there's still so much that we don't know about the brain, wow! also, thank you for these videos :)

[isabellathompson]

I wish you were my psychology teacher oh my

[el.]

THANK U SO MUCH FOR THESE VIDEOS

have my mocks tomorrow and i am basically binging all ur videos to get my head around biopsych one last time •_•

[unlimitedtimez]

6:45 i wish i had a deeper understanding of Brian :(

[Apanakhi]

I am recovering from damage caused by a glioblastoma and its treatment. ?This is helpful. Thank you.

[rintu]

You're a amazing teacher. Thank you so much for your work on here❤🥰

[ZedTV]

I think I've ended up liking all ur A level psychology videos 😂😂💪

[davinalauer]

is denervation supersensitivity the same as neuronal unmasking, thanks so much for the videos!

[lfljhkj]

Is functional reorganisation and neuronal unmasking the same concept when it comes to functional recovery?

[matyldakatana]

are the key terms part of the new specification? my teacher hasn't gone through specifics such as synaptic pruning, axonal sprouting, neural regeneration etc.

[ghanwasiddiqi]

hi do you have any predictions for this years a level psychology papers?

[CallumButton]

Is the Maguire Study A03 or AO1?
pls help lol

[reidpayne]

This is brilliant man but one thing to point out at 6:45 it says Brian instead of brain im assuming you won’t take it down or anything over this as it’s no big deal but just letting you know for future reference ! Either way a perfect video hadn’t heard of the study of the boy regaining language before !