Neuroplasticity and Rehabilitation

A complete book on neuroplasticity.  But I heard it takes 30 years to get from research to practice.  A simple sentence would suffice. Your brain can change depending upon the needs put upon it, so repetition for your damage can make a new area take on those functions. I'm not spending $65 on something I already know about, unless they actually have a specific number of repetitions needed for penumbra vs. dead brain damage.
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It takes an average of 17 years for an innovative finding to emerge from scientific depths into the daily practice of clinical medicine (Balas & Boren, 2000). Indeed, translating evidence-based findings into clinical practice is a long and sometimes treacherous process with many a novel finding lost in the cavernous gap that separates the laboratory from the clinic. Neuroplasticity and Rehabilitation serves as a bridge over that gap; achieving in a mere 350 pages, the integration of several years of laboratory research with animal models into real-world applications of rehabilitation strategies for humans.

The field of brain rehabilitation is based on the premise that functional abilities can be rehabilitated or restored after an injury. Nonetheless, evidence-based research to back up the promise of functional restoration has historically been lacking or, at the very least, not-well communicated; leading many health professionals to be skeptical of the field's potential. This volume on brain plasticity is a loud and clear message to those skeptics that neurorehabilitation for brain-injured individuals provides not only compensation for lost abilities, but also offers an avenue for the potential restoration of those abilities.

The aim of this book is to provide a description of the evidence and successful application of brain-based approaches to rehabilitation. The volume is presented in two parts. Part I dedicated to the foundational bench work on brain plasticity underlying approaches to neurorehabilitation. Part II extends