The fact that a young child who experiences brain trauma as a young child is more likely to recover language skills than an older adult who experiences the same type of brain trauma may be due to:
a. a healthier immune system.
b. neural plasticity.
c. a healthier brain.
d. neural rewiring.
Question 2
Imagine that we travel back in time and meet two Americans. The first says, I am sometimes called the father of U.S. psychiatry. I used bloodletting to treat my mental patients, but I insisted they be treated with respect.. The second says, Although I was only a schoolteacher, when I saw the deplorable conditions under which mental patients were living, I devoted my life to establishing suitable mental hospitals.. The first person was ____; the second was ____.
a. Benjamin Rush; Dorothea Dix
b. William Tuke; Clifford Beers
c. Clifford Beers; Dorothea Dix
d. Benjamin Rush; Friedrich Anton Mesmer
Brain scans showing the white-matter pathways involved in everyday learning:
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