sentences:  He believed the brain to exist as a delicate balance between its different components, and if a component became disturbed through injury it could affect other parts of the brain not seemingly associated with the site of injury.Therefore, if the damage wasn't too severe, functional behaviour would recover once the period of diaschisis wore off.He name is lent to "Monakow's nucleus" (lateral cuneate nucleus) and to the "bundle of Monakow" (rubrospinal fasciculus).