Briefly describe the functional recovery of brain after brain injury or stroke.

The brain is made up of billions of neural connections that transit and gather signals that are processed into information. Brain injury or stroke may cause damage to some of these connections. Neurons have a limited ability to repair themselves, unlike normal cells hence making brain injury difficult to recover fully from. The brain recovery after such as injury is are mainly driven by the brain finding new neural pathways around the damaged ones.

However difficult, there is a chance that a neuron can be repaired especially if the cell body is not damaged in the injury. If the axon is regenerated, it needs to make the right connections to re-establish signaling. The problem is that glial cells, that are integral to neurons structure and function, reduce the chances of recovery because they clean up damaged neurons and produce molecules that inhibit recovery