What precisely does your doctor know about this and how its being used for your recovery? Neuroplasticity anyone?
Equipotentiality refers to a psychological theory in both neuropsychology and behaviorism. Karl Spencer Lashley
defined equipotentiality as “The apparent capacity of any intact part
of a functional brain to carry out… the [memory] functions which are
lost by the destruction of [other parts]”.[1]
Another way of putting this is, the brain has the ability to use any
functioning part of the brain to do what a damaged part of the brain no
longer can do.[2] Equipotentiality is subject to the other term Lashley coined, the law of mass action.
The law of mass action says that the efficiency of any complex function
of the brain is reduced proportionately to how much damage the brain as
a whole has sustained, but not to the damage of any particular area of
the brain. In this context when we use brain we are referring to the
cortex.
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