Sample Response 13

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According to the reading, and adult brain has two ways to recover from brain damage.

The professor explains that the first way is by brain cell re-growth. She says that sometimes an adult brain can re-grow cells that were lost through damage.

She says that this can happen when undamaged brain cells divide to form new cells. She then explains the second way the adult brain can recover from brain damage – by reorganizing itself.

The professor gives the example of those who have suffered from strokes. Sometimes when patients lose certain functions due to a stroke, the healthy parts of their brains are able to change.

They can take over those functions that were found in the damaged parts of the brain.