Alex Cleeremans posited a “radical” thesis of this process to explain how a 44-year-old French man lived normally despite losing 90 percent of his brain to hydrocephalus. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this ability of neurons and neural networks to re-organize or grow in response to stimuli.
ANSWER: brain plasticity [or neuroplasticity; or neural plasticity]
[10h] Cortical remapping through neuroplasticity is a possible explanation for this condition that V. S. Ramachandran introduced a mirror box to treat.
ANSWER: phantom limb syndrome [or phantom pain]
[10e] In children with this condition, touch is mapped to the V1 area of the occipital lobe, which may help in the reading of Braille.
ANSWER: blindness [accept word forms such as being blind; prompt on visual impairment; prompt on descriptions such as having trouble seeing]
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