Healing the Brain with Familiar Stories

Continuing our journey into Severe Traumatic Brain Injury for both our veteran and civilian population, neuro.RAPT presents the third episode in the four-part bi-weekly series led by Dr. Theresa Pape, a clinical neuroscientist at the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital and Research Associate Professor at Northwestern University. Episode 3: Healing the Brain with Familiar Stories covers: 1) How does the brain repair itself after it has incurred a severe traumatic brain injury? 2) What is neural plasticity? 3) How do familiar stories told by familiar voices heal the brain?