HOW A BRAIN HEALS

摘要

It was a truism, conventional wisdom, a nasty fact of life. For years, doctors insisted that after the initial six-month recovery period, stroke victims could not improve substantially. Traditional rehab focused on compensation: teaching a patient who lost the use of his right hand to write with his left. Little attention was paid to the affected side of the body. Stroke, after all, kills brain cells, and no one expected the brain to heal, especially years after a stroke, since it cannot regenerate.