brain plasticity rehabilitation

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rehabilitation approaches grounded in the brain's capacity for neuroplasticity — the ability of neural circuits to reorganise, form new connections, and compensate for damage through experience-dependent structural and functional change; brain plasticity rehabilitation uses intensive, repetitive, and task-specific practice to drive adaptive neural reorganisation following stroke, traumatic brain injury, or other acquired neurological conditions; principles including use-dependent plasticity — the brain regions supporting practised functions strengthen over time — and the importance of salience, motivation, and feedback in driving neural change inform the design of rehabilitation interventions; modern neurorehabilitation has been transformed by the recognition that the adult brain retains significant plasticity throughout life, overturning earlier assumptions that neural recovery was limited to a brief post-injury window