"This tells us some people's brains appear to compensate by rerouting communication in the brain networks to improve messaging. It's like creating detours when one route is blocked or clogged," said senior author Farzaneh Sorond, MD, Ph.D., the Dean Richard H. Young and Ellen Stearns Young Professor, vice chair for faculty development and education in the Department of Neurology and a Northwestern Medicine neurologist. "If we can develop a treatment to produce this plasticity in an older person's brain, we might be able to improve their cognition and mobility."
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