摘要：Summary (Social environmental variables and physiological processes of recovery from brain damage: the
contribution of animal models). - This review presents the experimental approaches more widely used in animal
models to investigate possible strategies aimed to stimulate plasticity in the nervous system and possibly to
increase spontaneous recovery from functional/neurological diseases such as neonatal anoxia. Methods used in
laboratory rodents are briefly described. Attention is focused on possible enrichments of the social and physical
environment during development
