1st Edition
Neural Plasticity Across the Lifespan How the brain can change
Preface Section 1: Introducing Plasticity 1. Plasticity: A Tentative Definition 2. Neural Plasticity: General Principles Section 2: The Role of Specific Factors on Neural Plasticity 3. The Impact of Demographic Factors in Shaping Neural Plasticity Section 3: Specific Skills 4 Language and Neural Plasticity 5. Memory Skills and Brain Plasticity 6. The Self and its Brain Selected 4: The Mechanisms of Repair 7. Sensory Deprivation and Neural Plasticity 8. Plasticity and Recovery of Brain Damage
Biography
Gianfranco Denes is a Neurologist. He has been Director of the Neurological Unit at City Hospital, Venice, Italy, and taught Neuropsychology and Neurolinguistics at the Universities of Padova and Venice. His research field spanned many aspects of Cinical Neuropsychology, from language disorders (aphasia) to impairments of memory and spatial knowledge following acquired brain lesions.
Professor Gianfranco Denes must be commended for giving us a book which is timely, comprehensive and written in clear and concise style. It will undoubtedly appeal not only to the neuroscience research community, but also to the general public. - François Boller, George Washington University Medical School, USA
