Changing Brains - Applying Brain Plasticity to Advance and Recover Human Ability Part 2

This volume of Progress in Brain Research focuses on the applying brain plasticity to advance and recover human ability. The volume begins by discussing brain plasticity in the young, adults and old brains with follow on discussions regarding the type of neuroscience-based training that is on offer in impaired child populations as well as discussing the therapeutics involved in adults. Chapters on Applying Brain Plasticity and advances and recover human ability. INDICE: Contents include: Critical Periods - Takao Hensch Genetically-based Deficits in Brain Plasticity in Autism - Mriganka Sur Cortical Plasticity, Excitatory-Inhibitory Balance, and Sensory Perception - Robert Crooks Froemke Neurologically-Informed Principles of Brain Training - Merav Ahissar Overcoming Language-based Learning and Reading Disorders - Paula Tallal Working Memory Training in Impaired Children - Torkel Klingberg Brain Mechanisms of Plasticity in Response to Treatments for Core Deficits in Autism - Kevin Pelprey Resilience Training in  Youth at Risk for or with Psychosis - Linmarie Sikich Music Training for the Development of Reading Skills - Nina Kraus Principles of Brain Plasticity-Based Therapeutics - Michael Merzenich Targeting Plasticity with Vagus Nerve Stimulation to Treat Neurological Disease - Michael P. Kilgard

• ISBN: 978-0-444-63365-1
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 01/12/2013
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés