Neuroplasticity in the Brain of Children with Neurological Disorders

The brains of chil­dren with neu­ro­log­i­cal dis­or­ders seems to exhib­it signs of neu­ro­plas­tic changes, sug­gest­ing com­pen­sato­ry mech­a­nisms for the dis­or­der. This result opens up the pos­si­bil­i­ty that brain train­ing may be use­ful to help these patients con­trol their symp­toms. The dis­or­der stud­ied was Tourette syn­drome (TS), which usu­al­ly become evi­dent in ear­ly child­hood or adolescence…

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