Cognitive Rehab Learning Check

The set of processes by which the healthy brain encodes experience and learns new behaviors, or the damaged brain relearns lost behaviors or learns compensatory strategies is _________

Brains over 65 are less plastic than brains 1-65, but all ages can benefit from rehabilitation.

• True

• False

Tasks and behaviors that are meaningful and relevant to the client should be used. Which principle of neuroplasticity is this?

• Specificity

• Salience

• Generalization

• Time

High amounts of practice should be provided to induce plasticity. Which principle of neuroplasticity is this?

• Use it or lose it

• Use it and improve it

• Repetition matters

• Intensity matters

This mechanism of neuroplasticity states that recovery from _______ can occur, when an area distant from the lesion is damaged due to loss of neuronal input from the damaged area.

• Trauma

• Diaschisis

• Swelling

• Hematoma

This principle of neuroplasticity states that neural circuits reorganize to accomplish a behavior in a different way after injury

• Functional reorganization

• Recovery from diaschisis

• Synaptic modification

• CSF

This principle of neuroplasticity states that learning causes physical changes in the brain through dendritic branching and axonal sprouting.

• Restorative approach

• Recovery from diaschisis

• Functional reorganization

• Modification of synaptic connectivity

Compare and contrast restorative vs. compensatory approaches to cognitive rehab.