![]() ![]() Scott is less disabled than I expected, plucking words from a free-flowing stream that is lucid at the surface but often turbid at its deeper reaches.Īcross it all Scott's slender hands gesture like a conductor's baton coaxing sense from the jumble. His coal black eyes fix on me from under a lank dark mop of hair and energy pulses from his diminutive frame. ![]() We meet in Scott's brightly renovated California bungalow. Credit: Simon SchluterĪ course of rehab and 18 months later Scott's vocabulary is popping back like spring buds but his conversation remains peppered with the circumlocutions that, like "ding, ding, ding", stand in for the words that still won't come. New research on neuroplasticity - how the brain can make new connections even into adulthood - may help people like Scott Matthews recover from traumatic brain injury. ![]()
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