Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 87, Issue 12, Supplement , Pages 20-29 , December 2006

Patterns of Normal Human Brain Plasticity After Practice and Their Implications for Neurorehabilitation

  • Clare Kelly, PhD

      Affiliations

    • School of Psychology and Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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  • John J. Foxe, PhD

      Affiliations

    • The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Program in Cognitive Neuroscience and Schizophrenia, Orangeburg, NY
    • Program in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, City College of the City University of New York, New York, NY
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  • Hugh Garavan, PhD

      Affiliations

    • School of Psychology and Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
    • The Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Program in Cognitive Neuroscience and Schizophrenia, Orangeburg, NY
    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to Hugh Garavan, PhD, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

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    Schematic of practice-related changes in functional activations. The figure represents a highly schematized depiction of the changes in levels of activation and some of the potential functional loci o

    Schematic of practice-related changes in functional activations. The figure represents a highly schematized depiction of the changes in levels of activation and some of the potential functional loci of those changes associated with the different types of practice-related changes in functional activation described in the text. Adapted with permission from Kelly and Garavan.8

 Supported by Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (National Education Authority’s Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions grant), U.S. Public Health Service (grant no. DA14100), General Clinical Research Centers (grant no. M01 RR00058), and National Institute of Mental Health (grant nos. MH63434, MH65350).

 No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit upon the author(s) or upon any organization with which the author(s) is/are associated.

PII: S0003-9993(06)01281-0

doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2006.08.333

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 87, Issue 12, Supplement , Pages 20-29 , December 2006

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