Neuroplasticity City™

A brain under construction.

Your brain can change and adapt its connections. That ability is called neuroplasticity. After a stroke, focused practice and rehabilitation can help you relearn skills for everyday life.

Built from lived experience, Neuroplasticity City uses neighborhoods, routes, and a construction crew to make brain science easier to understand.

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Welcome arch and walkway into Neuroplasticity City, with four borough signs

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The idea

New routes. Meaningful practice.

A stroke can disrupt connections the brain uses to move, communicate, and think. Rehabilitation helps people practice meaningful skills and find new ways to do everyday tasks. Recovery varies from person to person and can continue over months and years.

Explore the science: American Stroke Association recovery guide · Communication and aphasia

Reroute.Find another way around the disruption.

Rebuild.Create and strengthen useful connections.

Recover.Practice the skills and systems that support daily life.

Rediscover.Meet the person, strengths, and possibilities still unfolding.

Illustrated map of Neuroplasticity City and its four brain boroughs

J and Rye introduce the whole-brain world of Neuroplasticity City

Your city guides

J and Rye help us read the signs.

The city makes room for the questions that follow us home. Who can help? How do we communicate? What does support look like today?

Your recovery crew. Therapists, nurses, doctors, and other specialists work together on movement, daily tasks, communication, thinking, and emotional health.

Room for communication. With aphasia, allow time to respond. Words, gestures, drawing, and writing can all help someone be heard.

Care partners need care, too. Offer specific help, such as a meal, a ride, or an agreed time to stay with someone, so support becomes something people can use.

One city. Four boroughs.

Different strengths. One connected brain.

The boroughs are a learning metaphor for the brain’s lobes. Functions depend on connected networks, so no borough works alone. The four R’s guide the city’s story; they are not fixed stages of recovery.