Lucien Has Suffered a Brain Injury and Did a Great

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Lucien has suffered a brain injury and did a great deal of damage to his motor cortex to the point where he was unable to voluntarily move his body.Although his motor cortex NEVER recovered,he did regain some ability to control his body movements,and imaging studies revealed that regions of the parietal lobe were now activated with voluntary movement.Lucien's story is an example of

• A) synaptic pruning.
• B) postsynaptic potentials.
• C) neural networks.
• D) neuroplasticity.

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