Abstract

Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution’s invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions of its own genome and thus adapt to environmental pressures, physiologic changes, and experiences. Dynamic shifts in the strength…

Pascual-Leone, A., Amedi, A., Fregni, F., & Boggio, P. S. (2005). Annual Review of Neuroscience, 28, 377–401. DOI

Key findings

  • plastic brain cortex — Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution’s invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions of its own genome and thus adapt to environmental…
  • plasticity intrinsic property — Dynamic shifts in the strength of preexisting connections across distributed neural networks, changes in task-related cortico-cortical and cortico-subcortical coherence and modifications of the…