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Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience

·June 30, 2017·5 min read

Controlling a Single Brain Chemical May Help Expand Window for Learning Language and Music

Using mouse models, researchers restricted a key chemical messenger to extend efficient auditory learning until much later in life. Disrupting adenosine signaling in the auditory thalamus allowed researchers to extend the window for auditory learning well into adulthood and far beyond the current critical period.

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Featured Neuroscience

·June 12, 2017·4 min read

Can A Single Exercise Session Benefit Your Brain?

Summary: Researchers document not only the behavioral and cognitive effects of a single exercise session, but also the neurochemical and...

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·May 30, 2017·3 min read

Vision Keeps Maturing Until Mid Life

The visual cortex continues to develop into our 40s, a new study reports.

Featured Neuroscience

·April 19, 2017·5 min read

Brain Sets Unique Learning Rate for Everything We Do By Self Adjusting to the Environment

Using a synaptic mechanism called metaplasticity, the brain can self adjust learning rates, researchers report.

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·March 20, 2017·5 min read

Human Brain Networks Developing in Adolescence Related to Evolutionary Expansion

According to a new study, adolescence may be a crucial period for remodeling of the human brain.

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·February 3, 2017·4 min read

Brain Plasticity: How Adult Born Neurons Get Wired

Researchers report adult neurogenesis not only helps increase the number of cells in a neural network, it also promotes plasticity in the existing network. Additionally, they have identified the role the Bax gene plays in synaptic pruning.

Featured Neuroscience

·February 2, 2017·3 min read

How the Brain Resets During Sleep

Researchers examine if the size of synapses alters during sleep and wake states.

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Featured Neuroscience

·January 10, 2017·3 min read

Scrapping Excessive Neural Connections Helps Build New Connections

Findings could help in the development of new prevention options and treatments for drug addiction, researchers report.

Featured Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology

·December 28, 2016·6 min read

The Late Effects of Stress: New Insights Into How the Brain Responds to Trauma

A new study reports on how a single instance of extreme stress can lead to long term neurological changes and trauma.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·December 21, 2016·3 min read

How To Define Maturity When the Brain Never Stops Changing

As different areas of the brain mature at different rates, neuroscientists argue it is more difficult that it seems to argue just when the brain 'reaches maturity'.