Hi Ann Muir Thomas,
In fact there are a few studies which have shown that there are
some people who got better at some aspects of their behaviour
after traumatic brain injuries.
You may like to get hold of:
Toomela, A., Tomberg, T., Orasson, A., et al., 1999. 'Paradoxical
facilitation of a free recall of nonwords in persons with traumatic
brain injury', Brain & Cognition, 39, 187-201.
Kapur, N., 1996. 'Paradoxical functional facilitation in
brain-behaviour research: A critical review', Brain, 1775-1790.
Martin, R.C., & Breedin, S.D., 1992. 'Dissociations between speech
perception and phonological short-term memory deficits', Cognitive
Neuropsychology, 9, 509-534.
These three may enable you to start you off in this area.
Bye for now.
Jorge.
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> We were talking about brain injuries in class yesterday, and how much of
> what we know about the brain is based on deficits related to specific
> areas of injury. One of my [brighter] students asked: "Does a brain
> injury ever have *positive* effects on a person?" What do you think? If
> there are any relevant case histories in the literature, I'd love to see
> them.
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Jorge Alvoeiro
(Ph.D., Hull, UK)
Instituto Piaget-Viseu,
Estrada do Alto do Gaio,
Lordosa,
3510 Viseu,
Portugal.
