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Animal experiments have demonstrated frequently that brain damage sustained in early life has less severe behavioral effects than similar lesions in later life (for reviews consult: Stein et al. 1974; Finger 1978). Although the notion that the brain of young animals has a greater compensational capacity than the adult brain has become almost a dogma, critical reading of literature does not support this unequivocally (Johnson and Almli 1978). Results of Di Giorgio (1944), who studied the effects of cerebellar lesions in newborn guinea pigs (born with an almost mature brain) indicate that not the chronological age as such but rather the stage of brain maturation is the determining factor for recovery.
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Gramsbergen, A. (1981). Locomotor Behavior After Cerebellar Lesions in the Young Rat. In: Flohr, H., Precht, W. (eds) Lesion-Induced Neuronal Plasticity in Sensorimotor Systems. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68074-8_28
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