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To See What’s Right in Front of You, Your Brain May Need Some Rewiring

Neuroscience NewsOctober 24, 2018

Researchers provide new evidence of brain plasticity. A new study reveals visual cortex neurons sprout new axons and shed some old ones as animals improve at perceptual learning tasks.... Read More...

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Neurons Reliably Respond to Straight Lines

Neuroscience NewsOctober 23, 2018

Researchers report single neurons in the primary visual cortex can reliably detect straight lines, even though the makeup of the cell is constantly changing. ... Read More...

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Astrocytes Have an Unexpected Role in Brain Plasticity

Neuroscience NewsOctober 18, 2018

A new study reports a protein made by astrocytes plays a critical role in brain plasticity by assisting with neural maturation and flexibility.... Read More...

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Hippocampus Yields Clues to Treatment Strategies for Cognitive Deficits in Multiple Sclerosis

Neuroscience NewsOctober 17, 2018

Researchers report hippocampal plasticity can be improved by aerobic exercise and memory retraining for those with MS.... Read More...

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Previous Motherhood Could Affect Hormone Therapy’s Ability to Prevent Memory Loss

Neuroscience NewsOctober 14, 2018

A new study reports mother rats who received hormone replacement therapy responded worse to memory and spatial learning tasks than those who had not given birth. Researchers suggest a woman's reproductive history could impact how the brain responds to hormones later in life.... Read More...

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Two Seemingly Opposing Forces in the Brain Cooperate to Enhance Memory Formation

Neuroscience NewsOctober 14, 2018

Researchers say homeostatic synaptic plasticity facilitates Hebbian plasticity, influencing memory formation and learning.... Read More...

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Researchers Unexpectedly Reprogram Mature Neurons in Mice

Neuroscience NewsOctober 11, 2018

Researchers have made a surprise discovery that could help provide treatment options for a range of conditions from Parkinson's disease to depression. Researching how to transform supportive brain cells into neurons, the scientists unexpectedly transformed mature inhibitory striatal neurons into dopamine producing neurons.... Read More...

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New Insight Into Aging

Neuroscience NewsSeptember 19, 2018

Researchers report plasticity is dysregulated in older brains, but increasing levels of GABA can induce longer lasting changes in the auditory cortex. ... Read More...

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Rewiring the Brain to Fight Epilepsy

Neuroscience NewsAugust 1, 2018

Sema4D not only reduces the severity of seizures in mouse models of epilepsy, it also helps to increase the number of inhibitory synapses in the brains of the animals, researchers report. ... Read More...

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Long Term Study of a Boy’s Lobectomy Offers Rare Glimpse of Plasticity in Action

Neuroscience NewsJuly 31, 2018

Researchers report, following a lobectomy, the left hemisphere of the brain compensated for visual tasks in a young boy. The findings, researchers say, provide a detailed characterization of plasticity in the developing brain. ... Read More...

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How Experience Changes Basics of Memory Formation

Neuroscience NewsJuly 23, 2018

Researchers report animals with previous conditioned experiences form memories using different plasticity mechanisms to naive subjects, even if they are about to learn the same thing.... Read More...

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Computational Model Analysis Reveals Serotonin Speeds Learning

Neuroscience NewsJune 26, 2018

A new machine learning algorithm reveals serotonin can help speed up learning rates.... Read More...

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To See What’s Right in Front of You, Your Brain May Need Some Rewiring

Neurons Reliably Respond to Straight Lines

Astrocytes Have an Unexpected Role in Brain Plasticity

Hippocampus Yields Clues to Treatment Strategies for Cognitive Deficits in Multiple Sclerosis

Previous Motherhood Could Affect Hormone Therapy’s Ability to Prevent Memory Loss

Two Seemingly Opposing Forces in the Brain Cooperate to Enhance Memory Formation

Researchers Unexpectedly Reprogram Mature Neurons in Mice

New Insight Into Aging

Rewiring the Brain to Fight Epilepsy

Long Term Study of a Boy’s Lobectomy Offers Rare Glimpse of Plasticity in Action

How Experience Changes Basics of Memory Formation

Computational Model Analysis Reveals Serotonin Speeds Learning