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Assumptions about the Brain and Its Recovery from Damage

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Brain Injury and Recovery

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Any consideration of how the brain recovers from damage must be linked to some idea, however vague, about how the brain operates. Frankly, we are a very long way from understanding how the brain as an entity, or its subdivisions, acts to produce the mental and behavioral characteristics of people. Yet without any firm foundation of this knowledge, as scientists, we must proceed in our research programs to generate an empirical basis for the understanding that we anticipate we will someday achieve.

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  1. Department of Psychology and Center for Neurobehavioral Science, University Center at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York, 13901, USA

    Robert L. Isaacson

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  1. Psychology Department and Neural Sciences Program, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 63130, USA

    Stanley Finger

  2. The Brain Research Laboratory, Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695-7801, USA

    T. E. Levere

  3. Programs in Occupational Therapy and Neural Sciences, Departments of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Preventive Medicine, and Psychology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 63110, USA

    C. Robert Almli

  4. Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, 07102, USA

    Donald G. Stein (Dean of the Graduate School and Associate Provost for Research) (Dean of the Graduate School and Associate Provost for Research)

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Isaacson, R.L. (1988). Assumptions about the Brain and Its Recovery from Damage. 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_6

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