Environmental enrichment for stroke and other non-progressive brain injury

Environmental enrichment and the sensory brain: the role of enrichment in remediating brain injury

The brain's life-long capacity for experience-dependent plasticity allows adaptation to new environments or to changes in the environment, and to changes in internal brain states such as occurs in brain damage. Since the initial discovery by Hebb (1947) that environmental enrichment (EE) was able to confer improvements in cognitive behavior, EE has been investigated as a powerful form of experi...

Environmental enrichment and the brain.

’ Division of Geriatric Medicine, NEUROTEC, Karolinska Institute& S-141 86 Huddinge, Sweden 2 Division of Molecular Neurobiology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, S-I 71 77 Stockholm, Sweden 3 Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140, USA 4 Deparmtent of Clinical Neuroscience, Sahlgrensko University Hospital, G...

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1 Division of Geriatric Medicine, NEUROTEC, Karolinska Institutet, S-141 86 Huddinge, Sweden 2 Division of Molecular Neurobiology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden 3 Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140, USA 4 Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, G...

Brain Plasticity and Neurorestoration by Environmental Enrichment

Traumatic brain injury and post-acute decline: what role does environmental enrichment play? A scoping review

OBJECTIVES While a growing number of studies provide evidence of neural and cognitive decline in traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivors during the post-acute stages of injury, there is limited research as of yet on environmental factors that may influence this decline. The purposes of this paper, therefore, are to (1) examine evidence that environmental enrichment (EE) can influence long-term o...