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Hughlings Jackson might well have objected to the title of this book, but not because he eschewed either theory or controversy. Rather, I think he would have taken issue with the implications of the word “recovery.” It seems to imply the theoretical possibility of complete recovery; this he denied, at least at the physiological level in adults. “Compensation,” on the other hand, implies that one part may substitute for another to a greater or lesser degree. This concept arose almost inevitably from the theoretical base that he constructed for all of modem neurology.
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Greenblatt, S.H. (1988). Hughlings Jackson’s Theory of Localization and Compensation. In: Finger, S., Levere, T.E., Almli, C.R., Stein, D.G. (eds) Brain Injury and Recovery. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0941-3_12
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