Your brain can recover from a stroke, at last in part, simply by enlisting undamaged areas to pick up some of the slack, claims new research.
Nature designs our brains to continue to compensate for insult.
Technology has opened a window on the brain, he says, allowing researchers to see what's up and running after a stroke. It also allows for better diagnosis and rehabilitation, Thulburn says. The basic MRI, in use since the 1970s, produces high-quality images of the inside of the body. The functional MRI, developed in the mid-1990s, is used to map the function of various regions of the brain. The functional MRI measures magnetic signals in the brain.